Common law, history, and democracy in America, 1790-1900 : legal thought before modernism /
"This book argues for a change in our understanding of the relationships among law, politics and history. Since the turn of the nineteenth century, a certain anti-foundational conception of history has served to undermine law's foundations, such that we tend to think of law as nothing othe...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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Colección: | Cambridge historical studies in American law and society.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The creation of times: custom and history in the British background
- Time as consent: common law thought after the American Revolution
- Time as spirit: common law thought in the early nineteenth century
- Time as law: common law thought in the mid-nineteenth century
- Time as life: common law thought in the late nineteenth century.