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Vol. 25, No. 2

Summer 2007



Editorial Staff  

In This Issue vii


Articles

Managing the Gallows: The Bank of England and the Death Penalty, 1797–1821
Randall McGowen 241

In the Public Interest: Charitable Association, the State, and the Status of utilité publique in Nineteenth-Century France
Christine Adams 283

Conflict, Letters, and Personal Relationships in the Carolingian Formula Collections
Warren Brown 323

Langdell on Contracts and Legal Reasoning: Correcting the Holmesian Caricature
Bruce A. Kimball 345


Book Reviews

The Making of Gratian's Decretum—Anders Winroth
reviewed by Charles Donahue, Jr. 401

From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation—Amy Dru Stanley; Double Character: Slavery and Mastery in the Antebellum Southern Courtroom—Ariela J. Gross; Labor of Innocents: Forced Apprenticeship in North Carolina, 1715–1919—Karin L. Zipf
reviewed by Stephen A. SiegelMortimer Sellers 404

Saboteurs: The Nazi Raid on America—Michael Dobbs; Nazi Saboteurs on Trial: A Military Tribunal and American Law—Louis Fisher; In Time of War: Hitler's Terrorist Attack on America—Pierce O'Donnell
reviewed by Elizabeth Lutes Hillman 408

A Tale of Two Murders: Passion and Power in Seventeenth-Century France—James R. Farr
reviewed by Sharon Kettering 410

Masters, Servants, and Magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562–1955—Douglas Hay and Paul Craven, editors
reviewed by Robert J. Steinfeld 412

Constituting Empire: New York and the Transformation of Constitutionalism in the Atlantic World, 1664–1830—Daniel J. Hulsebosch
reviewed by Peter S. Onuf 414

Secular Revelations: The Constitution of the United States and Classic American Literature—Mitchell Meltzer
reviewed by Jeannine Marie DeLombard 416

Conquest by Law: How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of Their Lands—Lindsay Robertson
reviewed by Ellen Pearson 418

Catalogues of Early American Law Libraries: The 1846 Auction Catalogue of Joseph Story's Library—Michael H. Hoeflich and Karen S. Beck; Catalogues of Early American Law Libraries: The 1877 Sale Catalogue of Gustavus Schmidt's Library—Michael H. Hoeflich, Louis V. de la Vergne, and Kjell Å. Modéer
reviewed by Whitney S. Bagnall 419

The Fugitive's Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession—Stephen M. Best
reviewed by Guyora Binder 421

My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations—Mary Frances Berry
reviewed by Bernie Jones 423

Veiled Visions: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot and the Reshaping of American Race Relations—David Fort Godshalk
reviewed by Mary Frances Berry 425

Bourgeois Nightmares: Suburbia, 1870–1930—Robert M. Fogelson
reviewed by Laura S. Underkuffler 426

Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America—Mae M. Ngai
reviewed by Kerry Abrams 428

The Two Reconstructions: The Struggle for Black Enfranchisement—Richard M. Valelly
reviewed by J. Morgan Kousser 430

Juvenile Justice in the Making—David S. Tanenhaus
reviewed by Felice Batlan 431

Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age—Kevin Boyle
reviewed by Elizabeth Regosin 433

Thurman Arnold: A Biography—Spencer Weber Waller
reviewed by Elizabeth Dale 435

Science for Segregation: Race, Law, and the Case against Brown v. Board of Education—John P. Jackson, Jr.
reviewed by Damon Freeman 436

From the Grass Roots to the Supreme Court: Brown v. Board of Education and American Democracy—Peter F. Lau, editor
reviewed by Leland Ware 438

In Pursuit of Right and Justice: Edward Weinfeld as Lawyer and Judge—William E. Nelson
reviewed by Polly J. Price 439

Block by Block: Neighborhoods and Public Policy on Chicago's West Side—Amanda I. Seligman
reviewed by Richard Chused 441

Like a Loaded Weapon: The Rehnquist Court, Indian Rights, and the Legal Theory of Racism in America—Robert A. Williams, Jr.
reviewed by Kevin Maillard 443

Originalism in American Law and Politics: A Constitutional History—Johnathan O'Neill
reviewed by Wayne D. Moore 444

Jury Trials and Plea Bargaining: A True History—Mike McConville and Chester L. Mirsky
reviewed by Carolyn B. Ramsey 446

The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1754–2004: From Imperial Bastion to Provincial Oracle—Philip Girard, Jim Phillips, and Barry Cahill, editors
reviewed by Lyndsay M. Campbell 448

Despotic Dominion: Property Rights in British Settler Societies—John McLaren, A. R. Buck, and Nancy Wright, editors
reviewed by Peter Karsten 449

No Bond But the Law: Punishment, Race, and Gender in Jamaican State Formation, 1780–1870—Diana Paton
reviewed by Cynthia Mahabir 451

Disobedience, Slander, Seduction, and Assault: Women and Men in Cajamarca, Peru, 1862–1900—Tanja Christiansen
reviewed by Sarah C. Chambers 453

Opium and the Limits of Empire: Drug Prohibition in the Chinese Interior, 1729–1850—David Anthony Bello
reviewed by Alan Baumler 455

Shattered Voices: Language, Violence, and the Work of Truth Commissions—Teresa Godwin Phelps
reviewed by Alexander Karn 456

Americans without Law: The Racial Boundaries of Citizenship—Mark S. Weiner
reviewed by Peter Charles Hoffer 458

Antitrust and Global Capitalism, 1930–2004—Tony A. Freyer
reviewed by Herbert Hovenkamp 460

Sovereign Selves: American Indian Autobiography and the Law—David J. Carlson
reviewed by Jo Carrillo 462

Laws and Societies in the Canadian Prairie West, 1670–1940—Louis A. Knafla and Jonathan Swainger
reviewed by Peter Karsten 463


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