Danger of Being a Gentleman (Works of Harold J. Laski) - And Other Essays

An excellent and entertaining essayist, Laski's volume deals with the issues of politics and law in Europe and American during the 1920s and 30s. It is unified by the concpetion of democracy as a society of equals sharing in a common good.

List of contents

1. The Danger of Being a Gentleman: Reflections on the Ruling Class in England (1932) 2. On the Study of Politics (1926) 3. Law and Justice in Soviet Russia (1935) 4. The Judicial Function (1936) 5. The English Constitution and French Public Opinion, 1789-1794 (1938) 6. The Committee System n English Local Government (1936) 7. Nationalism and the Future of Civilization (1932) 8. Mr. Justice Holmes: For his Eighty-Ninth Birthday (1930)

Summary

An excellent and entertaining essayist, Laski’s volume deals with the issues of politics and law in Europe and American during the 1920s and 30s. It is unified by the concpetion of democracy as a society of equals sharing in a common good.

Product details

• Authors: Harold J. Laski
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.10.2014
• EAN: 9781138822115
• ISBN: 978-1-138-82211-5
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: The Works of Harold J. Laski
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Europe, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, LAW / Legal History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Political structures: democracy, Legal History, United States of America, USA, Political science and theory, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)