I'm pleased to report that the September 2017 issue of the American Journal of Legal History is up on the AJLH's website and hard copies should be arriving in the mailboxes of subscribers soon. The contents are as follows:
Robert J. Kaczorowski, From Petitions for Gratuities to Claims for Damages: Personal Injuries and Railroads During the Industrialization of the United States American Journal of Legal History, Volume 57, Issue 3, 1 September 2017, Pages 261–315,
Ian C. Pilarczyk, Acts of the “Most Sanguinary Rage”: Spousal Murder in Montreal, 1825-1850, American Journal of Legal History, Volume 57, Issue 3, 1 September 2017, Pages 316–353,
Andrea McKenzie, ‘His Barbarous Usages’, Her ‘Evil Tongue’: Character and Class in Trials for Spouse Murder at the Old Bailey, 1674-1790 American Journal of Legal History, Volume 57, Issue 3, 1 September 2017, Pages 354–384.
Book Reviews
Richard Alan Ryerson, John Adams' Republic: The One, the Few, and the Many and Luke Mayville, John Adams and the Fear of American Oligarchy, reviewed by Tom Cutterham.
Dale Gibson, Law, Life and Government at Red River, Volume 1, Settlement and Governance, 1812-1872, reviewed by Russell C. Smandych.
Laura Weinrib, The Taming of Free Speech: America’s Civil Liberties Compromise, reviewed by Anders Walker.
Peter Wallenstein, Race, Sex, and the Freedom to Marry: Loving v. Virginia , reviewed by Alison Lefkovitz.
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