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875525
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Kessler, Amalia D.
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Inventing American exceptionalism : : the origins of American adversarial legal culture, 1800-1877 /\ Amalia D. Kessler.
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| Publication Statement
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New Haven ;London :: Yale University Press,, [2017]
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, ©2017
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| Series Statement
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Yale Law Library series in legal history and reference
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1 online resource (xi, 449 pages).
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| ISBN
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0300198078
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: 0300222254
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: 0300224842
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: 9780300198072
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: 9780300222258
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: 9780300224849
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9780300198072
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9780300222258
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Abstract
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"When Americans imagine their legal system, it is the adversarial trial--dominated by dueling larger-than-life lawyers undertaking grand public performances--that first comes to mind. But as award-winning author Amalia Kessler reveals in this engrossing history, it was only in the turbulent decades before the Civil War that adversarialism became a defining American practice and ideology, displacing alternative, more judge-driven approaches to procedure. By drawing on a broad range of methods and source--and by recovering neglected influences (including from Europe)--the author shows how the emergence of the American adversarial legal culture was a product not only of developments internal to law, but also of wider socioeconomic, political, and cultural debates over whether and how to undertake market regulation and pursue racial equality. As a result, adversarialism came to play a key role in defining American legal institutions and practices, as well as national identity"--Book cover.
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Adversary system (Law)-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
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Conduct of court proceedings-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
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Procedure (Law)-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
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Adversary system (Law)
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Conduct of court proceedings.
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HISTORY-- United States-- 19th Century.
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Procedure (Law)
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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349.73
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| LC Classification
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KF366.K47 2017
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