Reviews for Law and the Conditions of Freedom in the Nineteenth-Century United States

The average rating for Law and the Conditions of Freedom in the Nineteenth-Century United States based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-02-11 00:00:00 Charles Fitzsimmons a fun, if obviously slanted, look at the power of law to shape relationships and "release energy" on the american frontier (if by "american frontier" you mean wisconsin, which was one of willard hurst's principal primary-source research areas). i went to grad school a hurst disciple, but hadn't read this slim volume. i suppose i still agree with this hypothesis, but "choosing" among hurst, horwitz, friedman, et al. is kind of a mug's game. for what it's worth, "law and society" was my third dissertation field and is also in the title of my dissertation:

Review # 2 was written on 2020-03-03 00:00:00 Luigi Carchia The content is crucial to an understanding of the development of American law in the 1800s, but I honestly could not stand Hurt's first-person style of writing. It sounded contrived and made impartial analysis more difficult when I keep having to re-orient myself around the use of "we."