The Anti-Rent Era in New York Law and Politics, 1839-1865
Charles W. McCurdy
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 06/2003
Pages: 424
Subject: Law, Political Science, History
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Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780807860878
DESCRIPTION
Charles McCurdy considers the public debate on these questions from a fresh perspective. Instead of treating law and politics as dependent variables--as mirrors of social interests or accelerators of social change--he highlights the manifold ways in which law and politics shaped both the pattern of Anti-Rent violence and the drive for land reform. In the process, he provides a major reinterpretation of the ideas and institutions that diminished the promise of American democracy in the supposed "golden age" of American law and politics.