governance in american history

gautham rao's occasional citations to interesting work on governance in american history (and sometimes beyond).

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Ozsu on grabbing land legally

Umut Ozsu, “Grabbing Land Legally: A Marxist Analysis,” Leiden Journal of International Law 32 (2019): 215-33.  

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Edelson on map pf empire

S. Max Edelson, The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America Before Independence (Harvard, 2017).

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Glover on slavery and law of war

Jeffrey Glover, “Witnessing African War: Slavery, the Laws of War, and Anglo-American Abolitionism,” William and Mary Quarterly 74, no. 3 (July, 2017), 503-532.

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Snyder on activism and foreign policy

Sarah B. Snyder,  From Selma to Moscow: How Human Rights Activists Transformed U.S. Foreign Policy (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018).

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Blower on Nation of Outposts

Brooke L. Blower, “Nation of Outposts: Forts, Factories, Bases, and the Making of American Power,” Diplomatic History 41, no. 3 (June, 2017), 439-59.

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Macpherson on Colonial Minimum Wage

Anne S. Macpherson, “Birth of the U.S. Colonial Minimum Wage: The Struggle over the Fair Labor Standards Act in Puerto Rico, 1938-1941,” Journal of American History 104, no. 3 (Dec., 2017), 656-680.

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Haskell on political thought in early VA

Alexander B. Haskell, For God, King, & People: Forging Commonwealth Bonds in Renaissance Virginia (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017).

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Hatter on Origins of American nationhood

Lawrence B.A. Hatter, Citizens of Convenience: The Imperial Origins of American Nationhood on the U.S.-Canadian Border (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2017).

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Funk and Mullen on the Field Code and Digital analysis

@kellenfunk @lincolnmullen “The Spine of American Law: Digital Text Analysis and U.S. Legal Practice,” @ahr_editor 122, no. 1 (Feb., 2018), 132-64.

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Fede, Finkelman and Huebner on slave homicide

Andrew T. Fede, Paul Finkelman, and Timothy S. Huebner, Homicide Justified: The Legality of Killing Slaves in the United States and the Atlantic World (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2017).

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Bonner on CSA

Michael Brem Bonner, Confederate Political Economy: Creating and Managing a Southern Corporatist Nation (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2016).

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Billings and Tarter on early Virginia

Warren M. Billings and Brent Tarter, ed., ‘Esteemed Bookes of Lawe’ and the Legal Culture of Early Virginia (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2017).

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Collins on Gerken’s Federalism

Kristin A. Collins, “Federalism, Marriage, and Heather Gerken’s Mad Genius,” Boston University Law Review 95 (2015), 615-40.

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Snyder on early Virginia legal culture

Terry L. Snyder, “Jane Webb and her Family Stories and the Law in Early Virginia,” in Virginia Women: Their Lives and Times, ed. Cynthia A. Kierner and Sandra Gioia Treadway (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015), 55-73.

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Schmidt

Ethan A. Schmidt, The Divided Dominion: Social Conflict and Indian Hatred in Early Virginia (Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 2015).

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Billings and Tarter on early Virginia law

Warren M. Billings and Brent Tarter, ed., "Esteemed Bookes of Lawe" and the Legal Culture of Early Virginia (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2017).

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McCormick on Petty

Ted McCormick, William Petty and the Ambitions of Political Arithmetic (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009)