This is a thought-provoking exploration of the development of civil law in California from 1850 to 1890. Focusing upon contract, landlord and tenant, mortgage, tort, and admiralty law, Bakken argues that the formulation of the law generally responded to socioeconomic forces. He also asserts that on the operational level, the law's reach was limited by ambiguities, judicial inexactitude, and mistakes made by the bar. Essentially, the broad policy goals of frontier law worked to stimulate marketplace forces by facilitating certain transactions. Entrepreneurs often received the aid of the...
This is a thought-provoking exploration of the development of civil law in California from 1850 to 1890. Focusing upon contract, landlord and tenan...
In Practicing Law in Frontier California Gordon Morris Bakken combines collective biography with an analysis of the function of the bar in a rapidly changing socioeconomic setting. Drawing on manuscript collections, Bakken considers hundreds of men and women who came to California to practice law during the gold rush and later, their reasons for coming, their training, and their usefulness to clients during a period of rapid population growth and social turmoil. He shows how law practice changed over the decades with the establishment of large firms and bar associations, how the state's...
In Practicing Law in Frontier California Gordon Morris Bakken combines collective biography with an analysis of the function of the bar in a rapidly c...
In this volume, Gordon Morris Bakken traces the distinctive development of western legal history. The contributors essays provide succinct descriptions of major cases, legislation, and individual western states constitutional provisions that are unique in the American legal system. To assist the reader, the volume is organized by subject, including natural resources, municipal authority, business regulation, American Indian sovereignty and water rights, women, and Mormons.
Contributors are: Roy H. Andes, Dana Blakemore, Richard Griswold del Castillo, Susan Badger Doyle, James W. Ely,...
In this volume, Gordon Morris Bakken traces the distinctive development of western legal history. The contributors essays provide succinct descript...
Essays in this volume deal with the question of the focus of historical inquiry. Prior generations of historians concentrated upon the so-called frontier process. On the frontier, white male Anglo-Saxon pioneers confronted savagery in an east to west progression of settlement on free land. The process produced American Democracy. The present generation of historians rejects many aspects of the Frontier Thesis and asks questions about people and places. The settlement process started in the West, not the East. The settlers were multi-racial and women were players in the process. This exciting,...
Essays in this volume deal with the question of the focus of historical inquiry. Prior generations of historians concentrated upon the so-called front...
This volume presents key published articles on women in the American West. Once a peripheral focus, gender is now central to historical analysis. These essays make this critical focus manifest in the interpretation of the regions of the American West. Beyond regional implications, these authors make gender the centre of inquiry for all of American History.
This volume presents key published articles on women in the American West. Once a peripheral focus, gender is now central to historical analysis. Thes...
Essays in this volume survey the various environmental consequences of western development. The settlement process, the industrial revolution and urbanization all had environmental consequences. Completely neglected by most previous generations of historians, our authors analyze the environmental problems in institutional, legal and cultural terms. These essays make clear the need for a multi-disciplinary approach to environmental history as science, culture and law frequently clashed in the developmental process.
Essays in this volume survey the various environmental consequences of western development. The settlement process, the industrial revolution and urba...
The essays in this volume display the vast variety of urban experiences in the West. The authors examine the role of race, class and gender in the urbanization process and highlight many of the unique elements in western urbanization. Several of the essays portray the institutional and legal settings for this movement of peoples from the land to the villages, towns and cities of the region.
The essays in this volume display the vast variety of urban experiences in the West. The authors examine the role of race, class and gender in the urb...
This volume presents recent thinking on the role of law in the history of the American West. The contributors have created a field of specialization and brought the issue of law into the general field. These essays aim to demonstrate how legal history can amplify our understanding of the meaning of race, class and gender in the West.
This volume presents recent thinking on the role of law in the history of the American West. The contributors have created a field of specialization a...
