This book explores how a generation of American thinkers and reformers - abolitionists, former slaves, feminists, labor advocates, jurists, moralists, and social scientists ...

How Roman law has influenced European legal and political thought from antiquity to the present day.

An authoritative challenge to an entirely case-law based view of legal history.

This is a collection of original essays on the settlement of disputes in the early middle ages, a subject of central importance for social and political history. Case material ...

This is a study of the way individuals organise the use of resources in order to maximise the value of their economic rights over these resources.

This book provides an introduction to the rise and development of present-day private law.

This book presents a fundamental reinterpretation of law and politics in America between 1790 and 1850, the crucial period of the Republic's early growth and its movement ...

This companion to Elton: The Tudor Constitution, Kenyon: The Stuart Constitution and Williams: The Eighteenth Century Constitution is a collection of documents illustrating ...

This is an in-depth, richly documented study of the sex and marriage business in ecclesiastical courts of Elizabethan and early Stuart England. This study is based on records ...