| Contents | Law and History Review, 27.1

Vol. 27, No. 1

Spring 2009


Editorial Staff

In This Issue	vii

Articles

Law, Empire, and Historiography of Modern Sino-Western Relations: A Case Study of the Lady Hughes Controversy in 1784
Li Chen	1

Is Modern Liberty Ancient? Roman Remedies and Natural Rights in Hugo Grotius's Early Works on Natural Law
Benjamin Straumann	55

Liberal Jurisprudence, Labor Tribunals, and Mexico's Supreme Court,1917–1924
T. M. James	87

Making Mexico: Legal Nationality, Chinese Race, and the 1930 Population Census
Kif Augustine-Adams	113

Forum: Pierson v. Post: Capturing New Facts about the Fox

Introduction: A Famous Fox, a Surfacing Whale, and the Forgotten Slave
Alfred L. Brophy	145

The Lost Record of Pierson v. Post, the Famous Fox Case
Angela Fernandez	149

Transcript of the Judgment Roll in Pierson v. Post

Comment

Papyrology and 3 Caines 175
Charles Donahue, Jr.	179

21st Century Fox: Pierson v. Post, Then and Now
Stuart Banner	185

Facts, Information, and the Newly Discovered Record in Pierson v. Post
James E. Krier	189

Book Reviews

The Origins of Adversary Criminal Trial—John H. Langbein, and Plea Bargaining's Triumph: A History of Plea Bargaining in America—George Fisher
reviewed by Andrea McKenzie	195

Possessing the Pacific: Land, Settlers, and Indigenous People from Australia to Alaska—Stuart Banner
reviewed by Carl C. Christensen	198

Crime and Justice in Late Medieval Italy—Trevor Dean
reviewed by Simona Cerutti	200

The Origins of Reasonable Doubt: Theological Roots of the Criminal Trial—James Q. Whitman
reviewed by R. H. Helmholz	203

A Revolution in Commerce: The Parisian Merchant Court and the Rise of Commercial Society in Eighteenth-Century France—Amalia D. Kessler
reviewed by John Shovlin	205

The Paradoxes of Nationalism: The French Revolution and Its Meaning for Contemporary Nation Building—Chimène I. Keitner
reviewed by Ronald Schechter	206

Ruling Peasants: Village and State in Late Imperial Russia—Corinne Gaudin
reviewed by Esther Kingstonn-Mann	208

Legal Foundations of Tribunals in Nineteenth Century England—Chantal Stebbings
reviewed by Michael Lobban	210

Caught in the Machinery: Workplace Accidents and Injured Workers in Nineteenth-Century Britain—Jamie L. Bronstein
reviewed by Robert J. Steinfeld	211

Liberty's Blueprint: How Madison and Hamilton Wrote the Federalist Papers, Defined the Constitution, and Made Democracy Safe for the World—Michael I. Meyerson
reviewed by Erik J. Chaput	213

Trial by Jury: The Seventh Amendment and Anglo-American Special Juries—James Oldham
reviewed by Daniel Klerman	215

Entrepreneurs in the Southern Upcountry: Commercial Culture in Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1845–1880—Bruce Eelman
reviewed by Jenny Wahl	217

The Judges of the New York Court of Appeals: A Biographical History—Albert M. Rosenblatt, editor
reviewed by Whitney S. Bagnall	218

Establishing Justice in Middle America: A History of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit—Jeffrey Brandon Morris
reviewed by Miriam A. Cherry	220

Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace—Nancy MacLean
reviewed by Risa L. Goluboff	222

The Lost Promise of Civil Rights—Risa L. Goluboff
reviewed by Sophia Z. Lee	224

Little Rock on Trial: Cooper v. Aaron and School Desegregation—Tony A. Freyer
reviewed by Judith Kilpatrick	225

The Battle over School Prayer: How Engel v. Vitale Changed America—Bruce J. Dierenfield
reviewed by Mark McGarvie	227

Free At Last to Vote: The Alabama Origins of the 1965 Voting Rights Act—Brian K. Landsberg
reviewed by Richard H. Pildes	228

The Snail Darter Case: TVA versus the Endangered Species Act—Kenneth P. Murchison
reviewed by John C. Dernbach	230

Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race—Laura E. Gómez
reviewed by Kif Augustine-Adams	231

Courting Failure: Women and the Law in Twentieth-Century Literature—Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson
reviewed by Carla Spivak	233

The Constitution as Social Design: Gender and Civic Membership in the American Constitutional Order—Gretchen Ritter
reviewed by Yvonne M. Pitts	235

Americans in Waiting: The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States—Hiroshi Motomura
reviewed by Hamsa M. Murthy	236

The Age of Impeachment: American Constitutional Culture since 1960—David E. Kyvig
reviewed by Williamjames H. Hoffer	238

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