Informationen zum Autor Carolyn Steedman is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Warwick. Her previous books include Landscape for a Good Woman (1986), Dust (2001), Master and Servant (Cambridge, 2007), Labours Lost (Cambridge, 2009), An Everyday Life of the English Working Class (Cambridge, 2013) and Poetry for Historians (2018). Klappentext Reveals how people thought about, used, manipulated and resisted the law from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, focusing on everyday legal experiences. Zusammenfassung 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! History and the Law reveals how people thought about! used! manipulated and resisted the law between the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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Carolyn Steedman is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Warwick. Her previous books include Landscape for a Good Woman (1986), Dust (2001), Master and Servant (Cambridge, 2007), Labours Lost (Cambridge, 2009), An Everyday Life of the English Working Class (Cambridge, 2013) and Poetry for Historians (2018).

Klappentext

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

Zusammenfassung
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, History and the Law reveals how people thought about, used, manipulated and resisted the law between the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries.

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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.