governance in american history

Umut Ozsu, “Grabbing Land Legally: A Marxist Analysis,” Leiden Journal of International Law 32 (2019): 215-33.  

S. Max Edelson, The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America Before Independence (Harvard, 2017).

Jeffrey Glover, “Witnessing African War: Slavery, the Laws of War, and Anglo-American Abolitionism,” William and Mary Quarterly 74, no. 3 (July, 2017), 503-532.

Sarah B. Snyder,  From Selma to Moscow: How Human Rights Activists Transformed U.S. Foreign Policy (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018).

Brooke L. Blower, “Nation of Outposts: Forts, Factories, Bases, and the Making of American Power,” Diplomatic History 41, no. 3 (June, 2017), 439-59.

Anne S. Macpherson, “Birth of the U.S. Colonial Minimum Wage: The Struggle over the Fair Labor Standards Act in Puerto Rico, 1938-1941,” Journal of American History 104, no. 3 (Dec., 2017), 656-680.

Alexander B. Haskell, For God, King, & People: Forging Commonwealth Bonds in Renaissance Virginia (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017).

Lawrence B.A. Hatter, Citizens of Convenience: The Imperial Origins of American Nationhood on the U.S.-Canadian Border (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2017).

@kellenfunk @lincolnmullen “The Spine of American Law: Digital Text Analysis and U.S. Legal Practice,” @ahr_editor 122, no. 1 (Feb., 2018), 132-64.

Andrew T. Fede, Paul Finkelman, and Timothy S. Huebner, Homicide Justified: The Legality of Killing Slaves in the United States and the Atlantic World (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2017).

Michael Brem Bonner, Confederate Political Economy: Creating and Managing a Southern Corporatist Nation (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2016).

Warren M. Billings and Brent Tarter, ed., ‘Esteemed Bookes of Lawe’ and the Legal Culture of Early Virginia (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2017).

Kristin A. Collins, “Federalism, Marriage, and Heather Gerken’s Mad Genius,” Boston University Law Review 95 (2015), 615-40.

Terry L. Snyder, “Jane Webb and her Family Stories and the Law in Early Virginia,” in Virginia Women: Their Lives and Times, ed. Cynthia A. Kierner and Sandra Gioia Treadway (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015), 55-73.

Ethan A. Schmidt, The Divided Dominion: Social Conflict and Indian Hatred in Early Virginia (Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 2015).

Warren M. Billings and Brent Tarter, ed., "Esteemed Bookes of Lawe" and the Legal Culture of Early Virginia (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2017).

Ted McCormick, William Petty and the Ambitions of Political Arithmetic (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009)