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Law and Urban Growth: Civil Litigation in the Boston Trial Courts, 1880-1900
By (Author) Robert A. Silverman
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Legal systems: courts and procedures
973.8
Paperback
234
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
312g
This in-depth study of civil trial courts in any American city during the nineteenth century. Examining cases brought before the Boston civil courts between 1880 and 1900, Robert Silverman shows how the business of these tribunals mirrors social and economic changes within the urban community and how these changes made the 1890s a turning point in