Common Law, History, and Democracy in America, 1790-1900 - Legal Thought Before Modernism

Informationen zum Autor Kunal M. Parker is Professor at the University of Miami School of Law. He was previously the James A. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Law at Cleveland State University and has held fellowships at New York University Law School, Cornell Law School, Queens University, Belfast, and the American Bar Foundation. Professor Parker has served on the editorial boards of PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review and Law and Social Inquiry. His writing focuses on the history and theory of immigration and citizenship law, the history of law in colonial India, US intellectual and legal history, and the philosophy of history. Klappentext This book argues for a change in our understanding of how nineteenth-century Americans conceived the relationships among law! politics and history. Zusammenfassung This book argues for a change in our understanding of the historical relationships among law! politics and history. Through an examination of the writings of nineteenth-century historical! political and legal thinkers! Kunal M. Parker shows that the common law was seen as a better means of realizing the logic of history than democracy. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. The creation of times: the common law and history: the British background; 3. Time as consent: common law thought after the American Revolution; 4. Time as spirit: common law thought in the early nineteenth century; 5. Time as law: common law thought in the mid nineteenth century; 6. Time as life: common law thought in the late nineteenth century; 7. Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Kunal M. Parker, Kunal Madhukar Parker, PARKER KUNAL M
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.03.2011
• EAN: 9780521519953
• ISBN: 978-0-521-51995-3
• No. of pages: 318
• Series: Cambridge Historical Studies i; Cambridge Historical Studies i; Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, LAW / Legal History, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, c 1500 onwards to present day, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Legal History, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas