Mann Bruce H (76 results)

Hardback. Condition: Good. Debt was an inescapable fact of life in early America. By 1800, imprisonment for debt was under attack and insolvency was no longer seen as a moral failure, merely an economic setback. In this text, the author illuminates this transformation in early American society.

Hardback. Condition: Fair. Debt was an inescapable fact of life in early America. By 1800, imprisonment for debt was under attack and insolvency was no longer seen as a moral failure, merely an economic setback. In this text, the author illuminates this transformation in early American society.

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Hardback. Condition: Good. Debt was an inescapable fact of life in early America. By 1800, imprisonment for debt was under attack and insolvency was no longer seen as a moral failure, merely an economic setback. In this text, the author illuminates this transformation in early American society.

Wraps. Condition: Good to Very Good-. Vol. 158, No. 5 & 6 (Whole No. 960/1). Edited by Janet Hutchings. Cover art by 123RF. Includes "The Vengeance of Sekhmet" by Elizabeth Peters; "Death and the Coyote" by John Lantiqua; "The Longest Pleasure" by Anna Scotti; "We're in This Toger, Aren't We?" by Victor Kreuiter; "Wing Man" by Pat Black; "The Reawakening" by Hal Charles; "The Best of Times" by Michael Wiley; "What Can You Do?" by Pam Barnsley; "Jianjun Ling and the Sad Case of Sonny La Grassa" by William Boyle; "Ask Hagan" by Scott William Carter; "1952" by Bruce McAllister; "The Broken T" by Ellery Queen; "The Disappearing Man" by Sharon Hunt; "The Smiler" by Dennis McFadden; "The Debtor" by C. H. Hung; "Number 10 Marlborough Place" by Elizabeth Elwood; "Another Temptation" (First Story) by Eleanor Gonnella; "30 Ackerian place" (First Story) by Barbara B. Green; "Hit and Run' by Doug Allyn; "the Patsy" by Sunil Mann. Special features: "Index to Volumes 157 and 158"; "EQMM Readers Award Ballot. Reviews: "The Jury Box" by Steve Steinbock; "Stanger Than Fiction" by Dean Jobb; "Blog Bytes" by Kristopher Zgorski. Creasing; edge and corner wear with a few minor tears. Magazine.…

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Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 202 Pages Indexed. Pages 12-57 have some underlining in light purple ink. Light t cover corners and edges. No other defects noted and remaining pages are flawless. Combining legal and social history, the author explores the relationship between law and society from the mid-seventeenth century to the eve of the Revolution. Analyzing a sample of more than five thousand civil cases from the records of local courts in Connecticut, he shows how once-neighborly modes of disputing yielded to a legal system that treated neighbors and strangers alike. During the colonial period population growth, immigration, economic development, war, and religious revival transformed the nature and context of official and economic relations in Connecticut. Towns lost the insularity and homogeneity that made them the embodiment of community. Debt litigation was transformed from a communal model of disputing in which procedures were based on the individual disagreements to a system of mechanical rules that homogenized law. Pleading grew more technical, and the civil jury faded from predominance to comparative insignificance. Arbitration and church disciplinary proceedings, the usual alternatives to legal process, became more formal and legalistic and, ultimately, less communal. Using a computer-assisted analysis of court records and insights drawn from anthropology and sociology, Mann concludes that changes in the law and its applications were tied to the growing commercialization of the economy. They also can be attributed to the fledgling legal profession's approach to law as an autonomous system rather than as a communal process. These changes marked the advent of a legal system that valued predictability and uniformity of legal relations more than responsiveness to individual communities. Mann shows that by the eve of the Revolution colonial law had become less identified with community and more closely associated with society. Contents in Six Chapters: Debtors and Creditors, The Geography of Legal Change, Pleading and the Decline of the Jury, The Formalization of Informal Law, Churches Equity and Legalism, and Neighbors and Strangers.…

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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Debt was an inescapable fact of life in early America. By 1800, imprisonment for debt was under attack and insolvency was no longer seen as a moral failure, merely an economic setback. In this text, the author illuminates this transformation in early American society.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Debt was an inescapable fact of life in early America. By 1800, imprisonment for debt was under attack and insolvency was no longer seen as a moral failure, merely an economic setback. In this text, the author illuminates this transformation in early American society.

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Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Wrapper has light handling wear, remnant of mailing label on back. Pages clean, bright. Contents: Forum on explaining the law in early American history, a symposium. Maier, The revolutionary origins of the American corporation. Brown, The forfeitures at Salem, 1692. McCormick, The "ordinance" of 1784? Forum: American law and the American Revolution. Reviews. 9.25" tall; 239 pages. …

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Paperback. Condition: New. Debt was an inescapable fact of life in early America. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, its sinfulness was preached by ministers and the right to imprison debtors was unquestioned. By 1800, imprisonment for debt was under attack and insolvency was no longer seen as a moral failure, merely an economic setback. In Republic of Debtors, Bruce H. Mann illuminates this crucial transformation in early American society.From the wealthy merchant to the backwoods farmer, Mann tells the personal stories of men and women struggling to repay their debts and stay ahead of their creditors. He opens a window onto a society undergoing such fundamental changes as the growth of a commercial economy, the emergence of a consumer marketplace, and a revolution for independence. In addressing debt Americans debated complicated questions of commerce and agriculture, nationalism and federalism, dependence and independence, slavery and freedom. And when numerous prominent men-including the richest man in America and a justice of the Supreme Court-found themselves imprisoned for debt or forced to become fugitives from creditors, their fate altered the political dimensions of debtor relief, leading to the highly controversial Bankruptcy Act of 1800.Whether a society forgives its debtors is not just a question of law or economics; it goes to the heart of what a society values. In chronicling attitudes toward debt and bankruptcy in early America, Mann explores the very character of American society.…

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Condition: New. Debt was an inescapable fact of life in early America. At the beginning of the 18th century, its sinfulness was preached by ministers. By 1800, imprisonment for debt was under attack, and insolvency was seen merely as an economic setback. This work focuses on this crucial transformation in early American society. Num Pages: 358 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBTB; KCZ; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 227 x 144 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476. . 2009. Paperback. . . . .…

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