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Vol. 25, No. 3

Fall 2007



Editorial Staff  

In This Issue vii

Articles

"Of Portuguese Origin": Litigating Identity and Citizenship among the "Little Races" in Nineteenth-Century America
Ariela Gross 467

The Origin and Early History of the Writs of Entry
Joseph Biancalana 513

The Painful Question: The Fate of Judicial Torture in Early Modern Sweden
Heikki Pihlajamäki 557


Review Essay

English Criminal Justice Administration, 1650–1850: A Historiographic Essay
Bruce P. Smith 593


Book Reviews

From Tavern to Courthouse: Architecture and Ritual in American Law, 1658–1860—Martha J. McNamara
reviewed by Claire Priest 635

From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality—Michael J. Klarman
reviewed by Rachel D. Godsil 637

Vicksburg's Long Shadow: The Civil War Legacy of Race and Remembrance—Christopher Waldrep
reviewed by Norman W. Spaulding 640

Law and Justice in the Courts of Classical Athens—Adriaan Lanni
reviewed by Kyle Lakin 643

The Laws of the Roman People—Caroline Williamson
reviewed by M. H. Hoeflich 645

Stalin's Outcasts: Aliens, Citizens, and the Soviet State, 1926–1936—Golfo Alexopoulos
reviewed by Paul Hagenloh 646

Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492–1830—J. H. Elliott
reviewed by Richard J. Ross 648

Sovereignty and Possession in the English New World: The Legal Foundations of Empire, 1576–1640—Ken MacMillan
reviewed by Stuart Banner 649

Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim between Worlds—Natalie Zemon Davis
reviewed by Simon Doubleday 651

The Ancient Constitution and the Origins of Anglo-American Liberty—John Phillip Reid
reviewed by Janelle Greenberg 653

Censorship and Cultural Sensibility: The Regulation of Language in Tudor-Stuart England—Debora K. Shuger
reviewed by Carla Spivak 654

Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History—Ian Baucom
reviewed by Jeannine Marie DeLombard 656

Marital Violence: An English Family History, 1660–1857—Elizabeth Foyster; Stray Wives: Marital Conflict in Early National New England—Mary Beth Sievens
reviewed by Kirsten Sword 657

Sodom on the Thames: Sex, Love, and Scandal in Wilde Times—Morris B. Kaplan
reviewed by Kristin Brandser Kalsem 659

Violence and Crime in Nineteenth-Century England: The Shadow of Our Refinement—J. Carter Wood
reviewed by Simon Devereaux 661

Governments, Labour, and the Law in Mid-Victorian Britain: The Trade Union Legislation of the 1870s—Mark Curthoys
reviewed by Robert J. Steinfeld 662

Foreign Affairs and the Constitution in the Age of Fighting Sails—William R. Casto
reviewed by John P. Kaminski 664

Beyond Garrison: Antislavery and Social Reform—Bruce Laurie
reviewed by Thomas J. Davis 666

The Democratization of Invention: Patents and Copyrights in American Economic Development, 1790–1920—B. Zorina Khan
reviewed by Adam Mossof 668

The Black Laws: Race and the Legal Process in Early Ohio—Stephen Middleton
reviewed by Gautham Rao 670

Origins of the Dred Scott Case: Jacksonian Jurisprudence and the Supreme Court, 1837–1857—Austin Allen
reviewed by Mark A. Graber 671

Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery—Rebecca J. Scott
reviewed by Julie Saville 673

First in Violence, Deepest in Dirt: Homicide in Chicago, 1875–1920—Jeffrey S. Adler
reviewed by Leigh B. Bienen 675

Crimes against Children: Sexual Violence and Legal Culture in New York City—Stephen Robertson
reviewed by Felicia Kornbluh 676

How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution—Richard A. Epstein
reviewed by William M. Wiecek 678

The Brown Decision, Jim Crow, and Southern Identity—James C. Cobb
reviewed by Imani Perry 679

Yale Law School and the Sixties: Revolt and Reverberations—Laura Kalman
reviewed by Clyde Spillenger 681

The Rehnquist Legacy—Craig M. Bradley, editor
reviewed by Calvin Massey 683

Constructing Civil Liberties: Discontinuities in the Development of American Constitutional Law—Ken I. Kersch
reviewed by Stephen A. Siegel 684


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