Bringing Ideas Back In—A Brief Historiography of American Colonial Law
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8303034 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Scott D Gerber (Ohio Northern University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 359-374 |
| Publication date | 2011-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Legal History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9319 • E-ISSN: 2161-797X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ajlh/51.2.359 |
| OpenAlex | W2267376095 |
| Language | EN |
Famously dismissed by Roscoe Pound as useless antiquarianism, American colonial law has received increasing attention from scholars in recent years. This essay chronicles the rise of American colonial legal history as a field of study. The essay applauds this development, but recommends that the field remember its roots in intellectual history of the sort practiced by several giants of the past.
American history · Ancient history · Colonialism · Field (mathematics) · Historiography · Intellectual history · Legal history · Political science · Pound (networking) · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |