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2018
Law in early America came from many sources. To focus exclusively on the English common law excludes other vital sources including (but not limited to) civil law, canon law, lex mercatoria (the law merchant), and custom. Also, the number of sources increases the farther back in time one goes and the greater the geographic area under consideration.
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Law in early America came from many sources. To focus exclusively on the English common law excludes other vital sources including (but not limited to) civil law, canon law, lex mercatoria (the law merchant), and custom. Also, the number of sources increases the farther back in time one goes and the greater the geographic area under consideration.
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Introduction: Explaining Early America
2019The book’s Introduction briefly discusses the historical problem of understanding the history of early America, a problem which has been complicated by the still strongly held notion (in both public perception and in some academic circles) of an American historical exceptionalism.
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2014
Introduction Fronting the Pacific Ocean in southern Ecuador, Peru and northern Chile (~2°–32° S), the central Andean coast has played a critical role in South American history from the earliest human settlement more than thirteen thousand years ago to the present. As recently as the 1960s, Peru was the world’s top fishing nation.
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Introduction Fronting the Pacific Ocean in southern Ecuador, Peru and northern Chile (~2°–32° S), the central Andean coast has played a critical role in South American history from the earliest human settlement more than thirteen thousand years ago to the present. As recently as the 1960s, Peru was the world’s top fishing nation.
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