TY - JOUR
AU - Edling, Max M.
AB - Despite this oversight, the author’s chronology of topic” left out of the book due to time constraints. the emergence and development of American acad- This is unfortunate. Nelson claims that the introduc- emies offers important insight into the history of tion of the common law and the evolution of the legal education in the United States. These early institu- profession made the thirteen colonies predisposed tions, though flawed, were important in educating to resist imperial reforms in the 1760s and 1770s. A generations of white American men. By doing so, they comparative approach to establish if the nonrebelling helped influence the development of the American British colonies “developed along patterns similar to political system as well as serving as an important those of the thirteen colonies that became the United component of the American educational structure States” (249) would provide a test of his argument. throughout the nineteenth century. By recounting Despite the subtitle, and despite treating the c olonial the development and reform of these i nstitutions, period as a prelude to independent nationho od, this Aristocratic Ed ucation and the Making of the is not celebratory history. Nelson believes that more American Republic is an important contribution 
TI - William E. Nelson. E Pluribus Unum: How the Common Law Helped Unify and Liberate Colonial America, 1607–1776.
JF - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1093/ahr/rhac045
DA - 2022-04-26
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/william-e-nelson-e-pluribus-unum-how-the-common-law-helped-unify-and-PSAKZFV3TF
SP - 497
EP - 498
VL - 127
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -