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Book Review: The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860
Gilmore, Grant
Gilmore, Grant
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Abstract
According to the jacket-blurb which accompanies the book: "This searching interpretation, which connects law and the courts to the real world, will engage historians in a new debate. For to view the law as an engine of vast economic transformation is to challenge in a stunning way previous interpretations of the eras of revolution and reform." I do not mean to suggest that law book writers are to be held responsible for the indiscretions of law book publishers. But the essentials of the argument-Professor Horwitz would, I am sure, agree are not all that novel; they have been current for 30 or 40 years.