Law in America: A Short History: 10 (Modern Library Chronicles) - Softcover

Friedman, Lawrence M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812972856 ISBN 13: 9780812972856

Verlag: Random House Publishing Group, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Friedman Lawrence M

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Críticas

"Law in America is a little gem. It is a peerless introduction to our legal history--concise, clear, tellingly told, and beautifully written. The greatest living historian of American law has done it again."
--Stanley N. Katz,
former president of the American Society for Legal History and the Organization of American Historians

"All societies have laws, but neither all laws nor all legal systems are alike. No one has thought more deeply or written more clearly about the peculiar role of law in American life than Lawrence Friedman. In this trenchant, illuminating book, he distills a lifetime of scholarship and teaching into a concise and provocative explanation of the role that law has played in shaping the distinctive contours of American history and culture."
--David M. Kennedy,
professor of history at Stanford University and author of Freedom from Fear

Reseña del editor

A social history of the law in America traces the development of the American legal system from the colonial period to the present day, exploring the various ways in which it evolved to fit the changing needs of American society and economy and documenting its failures and accomplishments in terms of social opportunity, justice, crime, government, and more. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

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• Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0812972856
• ISBN 13: 9780812972856
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224