Virtuous Citizens, Disruptive Subjects: Order and Complaint in a New England Court

摘要: From the colonial period until early 19th century, country court served as a "people's court" and local peacekeeping force in New England communities. Today, county has become focal point for struggles over morality, community, rights. Its subjects include not only affluent property owners but also working class welfare poor, so-called "other half of America". The book grapples with questions agency production social order, analyzing how power law can be mobilized to blur distinctions between "garbage" official law.