[PDF.72hk] The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South

The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South

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 | #917562 in Books |  The University of North Carolina Press |  2009-04-30 |  2009-04-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.20 x1.12 x6.10l,1.45 | File type: PDF | 448 pages

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||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Provocative and Suggestive Analysis|By Gregory S. King-owen|Laura F. Edwards' The People and Their Peace argues that between 1780 and 1840 the government that mattered most to ordinary people did not happen at the federal or even the state levels. To borrow from John Murrin, both federal and state governments were "midget" institutions in a giant land. Instead, ordinary peopl| |Based on deep research in local and appellate court records, statutes, and the papers of jurists. . . . Edwards' efforts to chart a new legal history of the South are admirable and her research is impressive.--Journal of Southern History||

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In the half-century following the Revolutionary War, the logic of inequality underwent a profound transformation within the southern legal system. Drawing on extensive archival research in North and South Carolina, Laura F. Edwards illuminates those changes by revealing the importance of localized legal practice.

Edwards shows that following the Revolution, the intensely local legal system favored maintaining the "peace," a concept intended to protect the social...

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