Research Catalog

Title

The federal courts : an essential history / Peter Charles Hoffer, Williamjames Hull Hoffer, N. E. H. Hull.

Author

Hoffer, Peter Charles, 1944-

Publication

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hoffer, Williamjames
• Hull, N. E. H., 1949-

Description

xxiii, 536 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subject

• Courts > United States > History
• Courts
• United States

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Founding the federal courts, 1776-1789 -- Open for business, 1789-1801 -- A new beginning, 1801-1835 -- The antebellum courts, 1836-1860 -- The courts in crisis times, 1861-1876 -- The Gilded Age courts, 1877-1896 -- Federal courts in the Progressive Era, 1897-1919 -- Federal courts in the Age of Anxiety, 1921-1929 -- The courts in the Great Depression, 1929-1940 -- Federal courts and the "good war, " 1941-1945 -- The courts and the Cold War, 1946-1954 -- Federal courts in the Civil Rights era, 1955-1969 -- Reform and reaction, the federal courts, 1969-1986 -- Afterword by John S. Cooke and Russell R. Wheeler, with Daniel S. Holt and Jake Kobrick of the Federal Judicial Center History Office.

Call Number

JFE 16-6931

ISBN

• 9780199387908 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0199387907 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9780199387915 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780199387922 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2015040625

OCLC

925411023

Author

Hoffer, Peter Charles, 1944- author.

Title

The federal courts : an essential history / Peter Charles Hoffer, Williamjames Hull Hoffer, N. E. H. Hull.

Publisher

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Hoffer, Williamjames, author.

Hull, N. E. H., 1949- author.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-6931