03024nam 2200517 450 991081545970332120200520144314.00-19-972908-5(CKB)3710000000506411(EBL)273228(OCoLC)870243669(MiAaPQ)EBC273228(Au-PeEL)EBL273228(CaPaEBR)ebr11303291(EXLCZ)99371000000050641120161201h19921992 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe transformation of American law, 1870-1960 the crisis of legal orthodoxy /Morton J. HorwitzNew York, New York ;Oxford, [England] :Oxford University Press,1992.19921 online resource (737 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-509259-7 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.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; NOP; 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; WWhen 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 bLawUnited StatesPhilosophyHistoryLawUnited StatesInterpretation and constructionHistorySociological jurisprudenceHistoryLawPhilosophyHistory.LawInterpretation and constructionHistory.Sociological jurisprudenceHistory.349.73Horwitz Morton J.1938-292011MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815459703321The transformation of American law, 1870-19604114417UNINA