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Law and Social Order in the United States / James Willard Hurst.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1977Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781501742200
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Analytical Table of Contents -- PART ONE. THE RANGE AND THE CENTER OF LEGAL HISTORY -- I. The Range of United States Legal History -- II. The Powers of Legal Agencies -- PART TWO. LAW AND CHALLENGES OF THE NATURAL AND THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTS -- III. Science, Technology, and Public Policy -- IV. Consensus and Conflict: Market, Corporation, and Government -- Retrospect -- Sources Cited -- Index
Summary: Written by one who has long pioneered in enlarging the study of American legal history, this book defines and explores a relatively new field—the social history of law in the United States. Professor Hurst begins by setting forth some of the potential subject areas for this field, pointing up a wide range of possibilities. He proceeds to outline the development of the characteristic powers, capabilities, and limitations of the major legal agencies whose work furnishes the core of legal history. Next he offers examples from the history of law viewed in relation to other social institutions and to broadly shared values in society, treating first law, science, and technology, and then law's efforts to shape, serve, and adapt to the market and the big business corporations. In "Retrospect," his brief concluding chapter, he summarizes his views on the role and function of legal history.A major synthetic achievement, this book should be of compelling interest to social historians, historians of law, political scientists, and others concerned with the legal dimensions of social history.
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Analytical Table of Contents -- PART ONE. THE RANGE AND THE CENTER OF LEGAL HISTORY -- I. The Range of United States Legal History -- II. The Powers of Legal Agencies -- PART TWO. LAW AND CHALLENGES OF THE NATURAL AND THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTS -- III. Science, Technology, and Public Policy -- IV. Consensus and Conflict: Market, Corporation, and Government -- Retrospect -- Sources Cited -- Index

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Written by one who has long pioneered in enlarging the study of American legal history, this book defines and explores a relatively new field—the social history of law in the United States. Professor Hurst begins by setting forth some of the potential subject areas for this field, pointing up a wide range of possibilities. He proceeds to outline the development of the characteristic powers, capabilities, and limitations of the major legal agencies whose work furnishes the core of legal history. Next he offers examples from the history of law viewed in relation to other social institutions and to broadly shared values in society, treating first law, science, and technology, and then law's efforts to shape, serve, and adapt to the market and the big business corporations. In "Retrospect," his brief concluding chapter, he summarizes his views on the role and function of legal history.A major synthetic achievement, this book should be of compelling interest to social historians, historians of law, political scientists, and others concerned with the legal dimensions of social history.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)