Journal of Policy History

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Review Essay

Law and American Economic Development

John Braeman

Morton J. Horwitz, The Transformation of American Law, 1870–1960: The Crisis of Legal Orthodoxy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992).

Herbert Hovenkamp, Enterprise and American Law, 1836–1937 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991).

Howard Gillman, The Constitution Besieged: The Rise and Demise of Lochner Era Police Powers Jurisprudence (Durham: Duke University Press, 1993).

Tony Freyer, Regulating Big Business: Antitrust in Great Britain and America, 1880–1990 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992).

Edward A. Purcell Jr., Litigation and Inequality: Federal Diversity Jurisdiction in Industrial America, 1870–1958 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992).

John Braeman, Professor of History at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, is the author of Albert J. Beveridge: American Nationalist (1971) and Before the Civil Rights Revolution: The Old Court and Individual Rights (1988).

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