History and the Law: A Love Story

ISBN-13: 9781108486057 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 294 str.

Carolyn Steedman

Opis

Reveals how people thought about, used, manipulated and resisted the law from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, focusing on everyday legal experiences.

Recenzje

'… a stimulating and a thought provoking read.' Anne Logan, Cultural and Social History

Spis treści

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.