Originally published by the Macmillan Company in 1960, this book is intended as an introduction to the history of Massachusetts law in the colonial period, 1630

In this study of the role of taverns in the development of Massachusetts society, David Conroy brings into focus a vital and controversial but little-understood

Roger Williams, founder of the colony of Rhode Island, is famous as an apostle of religious tolerance and a foe of religious establishments. In Separating Churc

Republishes articles by two senior legal historians. Besides summarizing what has now become classical literature in the field, it offers illuminating insight i

Deals with four themes: common law and its rivals, the growth in parliamentary authority, the assertion of royal authority, and royal authority and the governed