New books in Legal History

Bon Tempo, Carl J. Americans at the Gate: The United States and Refugees during the Cold War, leads the (alphabetical) list of new books in legal history, just posted by Timothy S. Huebner, Rhodes College on H-Law. Other new titles include:

Edwards, Laura F. The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South.

Jones, Bernie D. Fathers of Conscience: Mixed-Race Inheritance in the Antebellum South.

Kende, Mark S. Constitutional Rights in Two Worlds: South Africa and the United States.

Kimball, Bruce A. The Inception of Modern Professional Education: C. C. Langdell, 1826-1906.

Nelson, William E. The Common Law of Colonial America, vol. 1: The Chesapeake and New England, 1607-1660.

Schafer, Judith Kelleher. Brothels, Depravity, and Abandoned Women: Illegal Sex in Antebellum New Orleans.

Whitman, James Q. The Origins of Reasonable Doubt: Theological Roots of the Criminal Trial.

The rest is here. If you'd like your new book included, contact Heubner at heubner "at" rhodes.edu.