Pamela Brandwein

Reconstructing Reconstruction: The Supreme Court and the Production of Historical Truth

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"An important call for the development of a 'sociology of constitutional law.' Brandwein forces us to pay more attention to the ways in which the reconstruction of history (in this case, the history of Reconstruction) becomes a vital resource in contemporary constitutional politics."--Howard Gillman, University of Southern California

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• New
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: Juli 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 162mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 667g
• ISBN-13: 9780822323167
• ISBN-10: 0822323168
• Artikelnr.: 21972566

Autorenporträt

Pamela Brandwein is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Political Economy at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Slavery as an Interpretive Issue in the 39th Reconstruction Congress:
The Northern Democrats
3. Republican Slavery Criticism
4. The Supreme Court’s Official History
5. Dueling Histories: Charles Fairman and William Crosskey Reconstruct
“Original Understanding”
6. Recipes for “Acceptable” History
7. History as an Institutional Resource: Warren Court Debates over
Legislative Apportionment
> 8. Constitutional Law as a “Culture of Argument”: Toward a Sociology of
Constitutional Law
9. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index