Common Law, History, and Democracy in America, 1790–1900: Legal Thought before Modernism

by Kunal M. Parker

• ISBN13: 9780521519953
• ISBN10: 0521519950
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-03-14
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book argues for a change in our understanding of how nineteenth-century Americans conceived the relationships among law, politics and history.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The Creation of Times: Custom and History in the British Background	p. 25
Time as Consent: Common Law Thought after the American Revolution	p. 67
Time as Spirit: Common Law Thought in the Early Nineteenth Century	p. 117
Time as Law: Common Law Thought in the Mid-Nineteenth Century	p. 168
Time as Life: Common Law Thought in the Late Nineteenth Century	p. 219
Conclusion	p. 279
Index	p. 293
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