Remaking custom [electronic resource] : law and identity in the early American Republic / Ellen Holmes Pearson.
Series: Jeffersonian AmericaPublication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.Description: xi, 251 pISBN:- 9780813930787 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0813930782 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0813930936 (e-book)
- 9780813930930 (e-book)
- 349.73 22
- KF366 .P43 2011eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- America's common law : custom, choice, and history lessons -- American constitutions and American character -- Property acquisition and inheritance -- The question of slavery in the New Republic -- Public lands, expansion, and the Native Americans -- Custom, the written law, and American legal treatises -- Conclusion.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.