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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815459703321

Autore

Horwitz Morton J. <1938->

Titolo

The transformation of American law, 1870-1960 : the crisis of legal orthodoxy / / Morton J. Horwitz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1992

1992

ISBN

0-19-972908-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (737 p.)

Disciplina

349.73

Soggetti

Law - United States - Philosophy - History

Law - United States - Interpretation and construction - History

Sociological jurisprudence - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Introduction; ONE: The Structure of Classical Legal Thought, 1870-1905; TWO: The Progressive Attack on Freedom of Contract and Objective Causation; THREE: Santa Clara Revisited: The Development of Corporate Theory; FOUR: The Place of Justice Holmes in American Legal Thought; FIVE: The Progressive Transformation in the Conception of Property; SIX: Defining Legal Realism; SEVEN: The Legacy of Legal Realism; EIGHT: Legal Realism, the Bureaucratic State, and the Rule of Law; NINE: Post-War Legal Thought, 1945-1960; Conclusion; NOTES; NAME INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N

OP; R; S; T; V; W; Y; CASE INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; SUBJECT INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W

Sommario/riassunto

When the first volume of Morton Horwitz's monumental history of American law appeared in 1977, it was universally acclaimed as one of the most significant works ever published in American legal history. The New Republic called it an ""extremely valuable book."" Library Journal praised it as""brilliant"" and ""convincing."" And Eric Foner, in The New York Review of Books, wrote that ""the issues it raises are indispensable for understanding nineteenth-century America."" It won the coveted Bancroft Prize in American History and has since become



the standard source on American law for theperiod b