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The lost world of classical legal thought : law and ideology in America, 1886-1937 /

This volume examines legal ideology in the US from the height of the Gilded Age through the time of the New Deal, when the Supreme Court began to discard orthodox thought in favour of more modernist approaches to law. Wiecek places this era of legal thought in its historical context, integrating soc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wiecek, William M., 1938- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 1998.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: the challenge of classical legal thought
  • The foundations of classical legal thought, 1760-1860
  • The emergence of legal classicism, 1860-1890
  • Classicism ascendant, 1880-1930
  • Classicism contested, 1893-1932
  • The collapse of legal classicism, 1930-1942
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix: Historiography and the Supreme Court.