History and the Law - A Love Story

Informationen zum Autor Carolyn Steedman is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Warwick. Her previous books include Landscape for a Good Woman (1986), Dust (2001), Master and Servant (Cambridge, 2007), Labours Lost (Cambridge, 2009), An Everyday Life of the English Working Class (Cambridge, 2013) and Poetry for Historians (2018). Klappentext Reveals how people thought about, used, manipulated and resisted the law from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, focusing on everyday legal experiences. Zusammenfassung Focusing on everyday legal experiences! from that of magistrates! novelists and political philosophers! to maidservants! pauper men and women! down-at-heel attorneys and middling-sort wives! History and the Law reveals how people thought about! used! manipulated and resisted the law between the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries. Inhaltsverzeichnis A beginning: 'history' Stephen Dunn; 1. Its ziggy shape; 2. Law troubles: two historians and some threatening letters; 3. Letters of the law: everyday uses of the law at the turn of the English nineteenth-century; 4. The worst of it: Blackstone and women; 5. Who owns Maria; 6. Sisters in laws; 7. Hating the law: Caleb Williams; 8. The kind of law a historian loved; An ending: not a story; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Carolyn Steedman, Carolyn (University of Warwick) Steedman, Steedman Carolyn
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781108736985
• ISBN: 978-1-108-73698-5
• No. of pages: 294
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, c 1500 onwards to present day, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Legal History, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General