Turn to Process - American Legal, Political, and Economic Thought, 1870-1970

"The Turn to Process explores how American conceptions of law, democracy, and markets changed between 1870 and 1970 from being oriented around truths, ends, and foundations to being oriented around methods, processes, and techniques. A fascinating work for those interested in US intellectual history and modernism"--

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. Truths (and Methods): American legal, political, and economic thought before 1870; Part II. The Turn to Process, 1870 - 1970: Three Essays: A. Law: becoming procedure; B. Political science: the group as process; C. Economics: man and market as technique; Part III. Conclusion: History, method, fracture.

About the author

Kunal M. Parker is a Professor of Law and Dean's Distinguished Scholar at the University of Miami. He is the author of Common Law, History, and Democracy in America, 1700–1900: Legal Thought Before Modernism (2011) and Making Foreigners: Immigration and Citizenship Law in America, 1600–2000 (2015).

Product details

• Authors: Kunal M Parker, Kunal M. Parker, Kunal M. (University of Miami School of La Parker, Kunal M. (University of Miami School of Law) Parker
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2023
• EAN: 9781009335225
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0933522-5
• No. of pages: 346
• Series: Cambridge Historical Studies i; Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, History of Ideas, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, 20th Century, LAW / Legal History, HISTORY / Social History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, Economic history, c 1960 to c 1970, Legal History, United States of America, USA, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, c 1950 to c 1959, History of the Americas, c 1960 to c 1969, C 1945 To C 1960, c 1890 to c 1899, c 1870 to c 1879, c 1880 to c 1889