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Michael Grossberg

Book Reviews

Michael Grossberg

Sally M. Reahard Professor of History and Professor of Law


Book Review. Venkatesh, S.A. and Kassimir, R. (Eds)., Youth, Globalization and the Law, 1 JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH 307 (2008). 

Book Review. Carp, E.W., Adoption Politics, Bastard Nation & Ballot Initiative 58, 36 JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY 299 (2005). 

Book Review. Does Censorship Really Protect Children?, Heins, M., Not in Front of the Children: “Indecency,” Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth, 54 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS LAW JOURNAL 591 (2002). [HeinOnline]

Book Review. Stanley, A.D., From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation, 66 JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN HISTORY 887 (2000). 

Book Review. Korobkin, L.H., Criminal Conversations: Sentimentality and Nineteenth-Century Legal Stories of Adultery, 86 JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY 1767 (2000). 

Book Review. Fass, P.S., Kidnapped: Child Abduction in America, 85 JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY 1114 (1998).

Book Review. Mason, M.A., From Father’s Property to Children’s Rights: The History of Child Custody in the United States, 82 JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY 183 (1995). 

Book Review. Lipartito, K. and Pratt, J., Baker & Botts in the Development of Modern Houston, 15 THE PUBLIC HISTORIAN 126 (Autumn 1993).

Book Review. Smith, M.D., Breaking the Bonds: Marital Discord in Pennsylvania, 1730-1830 and Wilson, L., Life After Death: Widows in Pennsylvania, 1750-1850, 79 JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY 1581 (1993). 

Book Review. Hall, K.L., The Magic Mirror: Law in American History, 10 LAW AND HISTORY REVIEW 173 (1992). [HeinOnline]

Book Review. Phillips, R., Putting Asunder: A History of Divorce in Western Society, 28 JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES 185 (1992). 

Book Review. Abel, R.L., American Lawyers, 24 JOURNAL OF SOCIAL HISTORY 903 (1991).

Book Review. Staves, S., Married Women’s Separate Property in England, 1660-1833, 35 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL HISTORY 112 (1991). [HeinOnline]

Book Review. Spurlock, J.C., Free Love, Marriage, and Middle-Class Radicalism in America, 1825-1860, 77 JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY 294 (1990).

Book Review. Penack, W. and Holt Jr., W.W., The Law in America, 1607-1833, 10 JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC 586 (1990).

Book Review. Brownlee, J. and McDonald, M. (Eds.) Public Justice: A History of the Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s Office, 1850-1985, 12 THE PUBLIC HISTORIAN 109 (Winter 1990).

Book Review. Pleck, E., Domestic Tyranny: The Making of American Social Policy Against Family Violence from Colonial Times to the Present, 93 AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW 1105 (1988).

Review Essay. American Exceptionalism: Harold M. Hyman, 60 NORTHWEST OHIO QUARTERLY 25 (1988).

Book Review. Glenn, M., Campaigns Against Corporal Punishment: Prisoners, Sailors, and Children in Antebellum America, 5 JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC 125 (1985).

Book Review. Hareven, T.K., Family Time and Industrial Time: The Relationship Between Family and Work in a New England Industrial Village, 45 JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY 451 (1983).

Book Review. Hoffer, P.C. and Hull, N.E.H., Murdering Mothers: Infanticide in England and New England 1558-1803, 12 PSYCHO-HISTORY REVIEW 43 (1983).

Book Review. Boston’s Trial Courts: Exploring the Urban Legal Wilderness, Silverman, R.A., Law and Urban Growth: Civil Litigation in the Boston Trial Courts, 10 REVIEWS IN AMERICAN HISTORY 84 (1982).

Book Review. Rabkin, P.A., Fathers to Daughters: The Legal Foundations of Female Emancipation, 68 JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY 666 (1981).