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History and the Law : a Love Story by Carolyn Steedman is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 historians including Laurence Sterne, William Godwin, and E. P. Thompson, who each had troubled love affairs with the law, Carolyn Steedman puts the emphasis on English poor laws, copyright law, and laws regarding women. Evocatively written and highly original, History and the Law accounts for historians' strange ambivalent love affair with the law and with legal records that appear to promise access to so many lives in the past.

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Author

Carolyn Steedman

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781108623506

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Law, History