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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. 'This is a wide-ranging and highly original treatment of law and history in nineteenth-century America. Parker incorporates into his story many new texts that have not been examined in this context before and re-examines familiar texts with a fresh eye and novel interpretations. Common Law, History, and Democracy in America, 1790-1900, is an illuminating and insightful work, offering an important contribution to the growing literature on historically and socially minded jurisprudence.' Robert Gordon, Yale Law School 'Parker has written an original and stimulating work of intellectual history. By insightfully analyzing how different historical sensibilities and temporalities interacted in nineteenth-century America, he succeeds in revising not only the standard narrative of American legal history, but also our understanding of nineteenth-century historical consciousness.' Dorothy Ross, Arthur O. Lovejoy Professor Emerita of History, Johns Hopkins University 'With this bright and closely reasoned book as a shining example, one can say that legal history has entered its post-maturity age ... essential reading for everyone interested in nineteenth-century American law.' Peter Charles Hoffer, American Historical Review 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....
