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Drawing extensively on his letters, his wife Elizabeth Sharp’s Memoir, and accounts by friends and associates, this biography provides a lucid and intimate account of William Sharp’s life, from his rejection of the dour religion of his Scottish boyhood, his turn to spiritualism, to his role in the Scottish Celtic Revival in the mid-nineties.

December 01 2018 Henry David Thoreau: A Life Henry David Thoreau: A Life. By Laura DassowWalls. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. xx, 616. $35.00.) Mark Gallagher Mark Gallagher Mark Gallagher is a PhD candidate in the English Department at UCLA and the Barbara L. Packer Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society. He is the former editor of the Thoreau Society Bulletin. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Mark Gallagher Mark Gallagher is a PhD candidate in the English Department at UCLA and the Barbara L. Packer Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society. He is the former editor of the Thoreau Society Bulletin. Online Issn: 1937-2213 Print Issn: 0028-4866 © 2018 by The New England Quarterly2018The New England Quarterly The New England Quarterly (2018) 91 (4): 705–707. https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_r_00713 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Search Site Citation Mark Gallagher; Henry David Thoreau: A Life. The New England Quarterly 2018; 91 (4): 705–707. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_r_00713 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll JournalsThe New England Quarterly Search Advanced Search This content is only available as a PDF. © 2018 by The New England Quarterly2018The New England Quarterly Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

The success of the Center for Historic American Visual Culture (CHAViC) at the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) is based on a variety of programs that other libraries could imitate in order to exploit collections that for various reasons are not been utilized fully by scholars, teachers, and the general public. In the United States, there are libraries and historical organizations with vast collections of prints and photographs, but few of these visual materials reach the hands of scholars or teachers. CHAViC is a concerted effort by the governing board and senior administration of AAS to find new audiences for visual materials through an improved access to collections; workshops, seminars, and conferences; publications; and a dedicated fellowship program. The overarching goal of CHAViC is to encourage the use of visual materials by historians as evidence, not merely as illustration. 1 Forour purposes, visual materials should be seen through the lens of history. This essay describes activities that we hope will lead to this outcome.

The formative period of American was a period in United States legal history, which may be characterized as one of experimentation.1 The split with Britain politically also signaled a split in terms of law.2 The new nation and its lawyers and legislators were faced with choices. They could continue to use British law; they could formulate their own new and unique laws, they could borrow laws from nations other than Britain. In fact, they did all of this and more. Perhaps the least well-known and understood aspect of this period of legal experimentation and legal syncretism is the extent to which the new nation looked to Europe and European legal systems for its legal development. Some work has been done on borrowing from Roman law during this period, particularly by Roscoe Pound, R.H. Helmholz, and Peter Stein.3 In 1997 I published a brief treatment on the influence of Roman law on the development of jurisprudential thinking in the United States during this period.4 But one important aspect of such borrowing, if not full-scale reception, of foreign law in the early history of the United States has not received adequate scholarly treatment: the problem of language.

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