Legalist Reformation: Law, Politics, and Ideology in New York, 1920-1980

by William Edward Nelson

Book Overview

Based on a detailed examination of New York case law, this pathbreaking book shows how law, politics, and ideology in the state changed in tandem between 1920 and 1980. Early twentieth-century New York was the scene of intense struggle between white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant upper and middle classes located primarily in the upstate region and the impoverished, mainly Jewish and Roman Catholic, immigrant underclass centered in New York City. Beginning...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807825913
• ISBN13: 9780807825914
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.3"