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Law and Society in Puritan Massachusetts : Essex County, 1629-1692.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1978Copyright date: ©1979Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (239 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780807863435
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Law and Society in Puritan MassachusettsLOC classification:
  • KFM2999.E8.K66 1979
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Maps -- Tables -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Author's Note -- 1. English Law and Puritan Society: The Legal and Social Foundations of Order, 1629-1640 -- 2. Real Property Litigation: The Social and Economic Backgrounds of Legal Change -- 3. Outsiders and Subgroups: The Coordinative Function of the Court -- 4. From Communalism to Litigation: The Elevation of Law and Legal Forms -- 5. The Court and the Community: Law in a Postrevolutionary Puritan Society -- 6. Challenges to the Law: The Conflict of Legal and Extralegal Methods of Social Control -- 7. Law, Magic, and Disorder: The Crisis of the Interregnum, 1684-1692 -- 8. Epilogue: A Contentious and Well-Ordered People -- Bibliography -- Index -- A-B -- C -- D -- E-G -- H-J -- K-L -- M-N -- O-R -- S -- T-W -- Y.
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Intro -- Contents -- Maps -- Tables -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Author's Note -- 1. English Law and Puritan Society: The Legal and Social Foundations of Order, 1629-1640 -- 2. Real Property Litigation: The Social and Economic Backgrounds of Legal Change -- 3. Outsiders and Subgroups: The Coordinative Function of the Court -- 4. From Communalism to Litigation: The Elevation of Law and Legal Forms -- 5. The Court and the Community: Law in a Postrevolutionary Puritan Society -- 6. Challenges to the Law: The Conflict of Legal and Extralegal Methods of Social Control -- 7. Law, Magic, and Disorder: The Crisis of the Interregnum, 1684-1692 -- 8. Epilogue: A Contentious and Well-Ordered People -- Bibliography -- Index -- A-B -- C -- D -- E-G -- H-J -- K-L -- M-N -- O-R -- S -- T-W -- Y.

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