Abstract
This essay is an appreciation of William E. Nelson’s Americanization of the Common Law: The Impact of Legal Change on Massachusetts Society, 1760–1830 (1975) and the complementary study published six years later as Dispute and Conflict Resolution in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, 1725–1825 (1981). The essay places Nelson’s research project in the immediate context of historical writing on colonial New England at the time of their publication but steps back from that narrow context to identify the significance of the book in the long trajectory of great legal historical writing on the Anglo-American legal tradition.
Recommended Citation
David T. Konig,
Americanization of the Common Law: The Intellectual Migration Meets the Great Migration,
89
Chi.-Kent L. Rev.
917
(2014).
Available at:
https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/cklawreview/vol89/iss3/3
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