Download or read book Law as Culture and Culture as Law written by John Phillip Reid and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law as Culture and Culture as Law presents a spectrum of historical inquiries developing and engaging John Phillip Reid's insights and methodological approaches to legal and constitutional history. The essays gathered in this volume span nearly three centuries and two continents, ranging from the agonizing struggles over law, religion, and governance in late seventeenth-century Ireland to the legal and constitutional regimes of governmental regulation in twentieth-century New York.