Nelson identifies three principal institutions involved in conflict resolution: the twon meeting, the church congregation, and the courts of law. He subsequentl
Combining legal and social history, Bruce Mann explores the relationship between law and society from the mid-seventeenth century to the eve of the Revolution.
During the first half-century of American independence, a fundamental change in the meaning and morality of ambition emerged in American culture. Long stigmatiz
A brilliant and original examination of American freedom as it existed before the Revolution, from the Smithsonian’s curator of social history. The American R
