| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.2

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Book Review

The Many Legalities of Early America. Ed. by Christopher L. Tomlins and Bruce H. Mann. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. xii, 466 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8078-2632-4. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-8078-4964-2.)

Legal historians were brought up short by Stanley Katz's 1984 essay "The Problem of a Colonial Legal History" (in Jack P. Greene and J. R. Pole's edited collection Colonial British America: Essays in the New History of the Early Modern Era, 1984), in which he decried the field's limited scope and teleological tilt toward the American nation. As Christopher L. Tomlins, a coeditor of this volume, puts it, Katz argued that "colonial legal history had never established critical interpretive presence for itself." These essays resulted from a 1996 conference hosted by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture that was designed to assess changes in the field since Katz's 1984 summary and to point new directions. . . .

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