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Litigation Nation
A Cultural History of Lawsuits in America
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2019
Summary
Americans have long been identified as a people of law and lawyers with an addiction to lawsuits. In Litigation Nation, Peter Charles Hoffer, one of America’s most preeminent legal historians, charts the history of civil litigation from the seventeenth century to the present, using key cases pursued by ordinary people to illustrate how the civil courts have been a battlefront to contest the boundaries of permissible personal conduct in times of social and political change. Using representative case studies from each period—from defamation suits in seventeenth-century America to recent civil rights and gender discrimination lawsuits, Hoffer’s concise and accessible history shows how litigation reflects the lives and values of ordinary Americans.
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Edition
1/2019
Copyright Year
2019
ISBN-Print
978-1-5381-1657-9
ISBN-Online
978-1-5381-1658-6
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
224
Product Type
Monograph
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Preface No access
Introduction: Litigation and Honor No access Pages 1 - 10
1: Defamation No access
2: Land-Grabbing and Money-Grubbing No access
3: Slavery and Honor No access
4: Free Labor? No access
5: Stock Swindles and Swindlers No access
6: Divorce No access
7: Civil Rights and Wrongs No access
8: Product Liability and Mass Tort Litigation No access
Conclusion: The Value of Litigation in America No access Pages 193 - 198
