History and the Law: A Love Story

by Carolyn Steedman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110873698X
• ISBN13: 9781108736985
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 8.9"