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The people's welfare : law and regulation in nineteenth-century America / William J. Novak.
- Title
- The people's welfare : law and regulation in nineteenth-century America / William J. Novak.
- Author
- Novak, William J., 1961-
- Publication
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Description
- x, 396 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Studies in legal history
- Uniform Title
- Studies in legal history
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-373) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Governance, police, and American liberal mythology -- The common law vision of a well-regulated society -- Public safety : fire and the relative right of property -- Public economy : the well-ordered market -- Public ways : the legal construction of public space -- Public morality : disorderly houses and demon rum -- Public health : quarantine, noxious trades, and medical police -- The invention of American constitutional law.
- ISBN
- 0807846112 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0807822922 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^95051850^
- OCLC
- 33863059
- SCSB-10050551
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library