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and the Legal Culture of Early Virginia. Early American Histories

Format: Hardback
Publisher: University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, United States
Published: 28th Feb 2017
Dimensions: w 152mm h 229mm d 21mm
Weight: 510g
ISBN-10: 0813939399
ISBN-13: 9780813939391
Barcode No: 9780813939391
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Virginia men of law constituted one of the first learned professions in colonial America, and Virginia legal culture had an important and lasting impact on American political institutions and jurisprudence. Exploring the book collections of these Virginians therefore offers insight into the history of the book and early American intellectual history. It also addresses essential questions of how English culture migrated to the American colonies and was transformed into a distinctive American culture. Focusing on the law books that colonial Virginians acquired, how they used them, and how they eventually produced a native-grown legal literature, this collection of essays explores important aspects of the law and intellectual culture of the commonwealth that reveal the origins of a distinctively Virginian legal literature. The contributors argue that the development of early Virginia legal history-as revealed through these book collections-not only illuminates important aspects of Virginia's history and culture; it also underlies a thorough understanding of colonial and revolutionary American history and culture.

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"This splendid essay collection brings to life the richness of Virginia's colonial legal culture-a necessary book for anyone interested in colonial Virginia lawyers." -Mary Sarah Bilder, Boston College Law School, author of Madison's Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention