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Inventing American exceptionalism :

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Inventing American exceptionalism :

[Book]

the origins of American adversarial legal culture, 1800-1877 /

Amalia D. Kessler.

London :

Yale University Press,

[2017]

©2017

1 online resource (xi, 449 pages).

Yale Law Library series in legal history and reference

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"When Americans imagine their legal system, it is the adversarial trial--dominated by dueling larger-than-life lawyers undertaking grand public performances--that first comes to mind. But as award-winning author Amalia Kessler reveals in this engrossing history, it was only in the turbulent decades before the Civil War that adversarialism became a defining American practice and ideology, displacing alternative, more judge-driven approaches to procedure. By drawing on a broad range of methods and source--and by recovering neglected influences (including from Europe)--the author shows how the emergence of the American adversarial legal culture was a product not only of developments internal to law, but also of wider socioeconomic, political, and cultural debates over whether and how to undertake market regulation and pursue racial equality. As a result, adversarialism came to play a key role in defining American legal institutions and practices, as well as national identity"--Book cover.

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Inventing American exceptionalism.

9780300198072

Adversary system (Law)-- United States-- History-- 19th century.

Conduct of court proceedings-- United States-- History-- 19th century.

Procedure (Law)-- United States-- History-- 19th century.

Adversary system (Law)

Conduct of court proceedings.

HISTORY-- United States-- 19th Century.

Procedure (Law)

United States.

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