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History And The Law: A Love Story

By Carolyn Steedman

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2020
ISBN
1108486053, 9781108486057, 110873698X, 9781108736985, 1108623506, 9781108623506
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2325937 bytes)
Edition
1st Edition
Pages
297\297
Time added
2021-01-07 13:33:59
Law: Great Britain: History; Law: History

Description

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 in their coverture, History and the Law reveals how people thought about, used, manipulated and resisted the law between the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries. Supported by clear, engaging examples taken from the historical record, and from the writing of historians including Laurence Sterne, William Godwin, and E. P. Thompson, who each had troubled love affairs with the law, Carolyn Steedman puts the emphasis on English poor laws, copyright law, and laws regarding women. Evocatively written and highly original, History and the Law accounts for historians' strange ambivalent love affair with the law and with legal records that appear to promise access to so many lives in the past.

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