7. Counting as a Tool of Legal History

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. I. Civil Wars and Legal Rights
5. 1. The Landscape of Faith 13
6. 2. “It cant be cald stealin’” 49
7. 3. Debating the Fourteenth Amendment 75
8. II. Law and Social Regulation 89
9. 4. Was the Warning of Strangers Unique to Colonial New England? 91
10. 5. Ambiguities of Free Labor Revisited 116
11. 6. The Long, Broad, and Deep Civil Rights Movement 140
12. 7. Counting as a Tool of Legal History 162
13. III. Courts, Judges, and Litigators 179
14. 8. A Mania for Accumulation 181
15. 9. The Political Economy of Pain 235
16. 10. An Unexpected Antagonist 264
17. Bibliography of the Scholarship of William E. Nelson, 1963–2012 293
18. Acknowledgments 299
19. Contributors 301
20. Index 303