The Resource Taming the past : essays on law in history and history in law, Robert W. Gordon, Stanford University, (electronic resource)
Taming the past : essays on law in history and history in law, Robert W. Gordon, Stanford University, (electronic resource)
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- Summary
- Lawyers and judges often make arguments based on history - on the authority of precedent and original constitutional understandings. They argue both to preserve the inspirational, heroic past and to discard its darker pieces - such as feudalism and slavery, the tyranny of princes and priests, and the subordination of women. In doing so, lawyers tame the unruly, ugly, embarrassing elements of the past, smoothing them into reassuring tales of progress. In a series of essays and lectures written over forty years, Robert W. Gordon describes and analyses how lawyers approach the past and the strategies they use to recruit history for present use while erasing or keeping at bay its threatening or inconvenient aspects. Together, the corpus of work featured in Taming the Past offers an analysis of American law and society and its leading historians since 1900
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 424 pages)
- Note
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Jul 2017)
- Contents
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- Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. The Common Law Tradition in Legal Historiography: 1. The common law tradition in American legal historiography; 2. Holmes' common law as legal and social science; Part II. Legal Historians: 3. James Willard Hurst, against the common law tradition - social-legal history's pioneer; 4. Hurst recaptured; 5. Morton Horwitz and his critics: a conflict of narratives; 6. The elusive transformation; 7. Method and politics: Horwitz on lawyers' uses of history; 8. E. P. Thompson's legacies; 9. Owen Fiss, the constitution of liberal order at the 'Troubled Beginnings of the Modern State'; Part III. History and Historicism in Legal History and Argument: 10. Historicism in legal scholarship; 11. Critical legal histories; 12. The past as authority and social critic; 13. Taming the past: three lectures on history in legal argument; 14. Originalism and nostalgic traditionalism; 15. Undoing historical injustice
- Isbn
- 9781108147668
- Label
- Taming the past : essays on law in history and history in law
- Title
- Taming the past
- Title remainder
- essays on law in history and history in law
- Statement of responsibility
- Robert W. Gordon, Stanford University
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Lawyers and judges often make arguments based on history - on the authority of precedent and original constitutional understandings. They argue both to preserve the inspirational, heroic past and to discard its darker pieces - such as feudalism and slavery, the tyranny of princes and priests, and the subordination of women. In doing so, lawyers tame the unruly, ugly, embarrassing elements of the past, smoothing them into reassuring tales of progress. In a series of essays and lectures written over forty years, Robert W. Gordon describes and analyses how lawyers approach the past and the strategies they use to recruit history for present use while erasing or keeping at bay its threatening or inconvenient aspects. Together, the corpus of work featured in Taming the Past offers an analysis of American law and society and its leading historians since 1900
- Cataloging source
- UkCbUP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1941-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Gordon, Robert W.
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- Series statement
- Studies in legal history
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
- Law
- Label
- Taming the past : essays on law in history and history in law, Robert W. Gordon, Stanford University, (electronic resource)
- Note
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Jul 2017)
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. The Common Law Tradition in Legal Historiography: 1. The common law tradition in American legal historiography; 2. Holmes' common law as legal and social science; Part II. Legal Historians: 3. James Willard Hurst, against the common law tradition - social-legal history's pioneer; 4. Hurst recaptured; 5. Morton Horwitz and his critics: a conflict of narratives; 6. The elusive transformation; 7. Method and politics: Horwitz on lawyers' uses of history; 8. E. P. Thompson's legacies; 9. Owen Fiss, the constitution of liberal order at the 'Troubled Beginnings of the Modern State'; Part III. History and Historicism in Legal History and Argument: 10. Historicism in legal scholarship; 11. Critical legal histories; 12. The past as authority and social critic; 13. Taming the past: three lectures on history in legal argument; 14. Originalism and nostalgic traditionalism; 15. Undoing historical injustice
- Control code
- ssib035317056
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 424 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Governing access note
- Access restricted to subscribing institutions
- Isbn
- 9781108147668
- Isbn Type
- (ebook)
- Other physical details
- digital, PDF file(s)
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (WaSeSS)ssib035317056
- Label
- Taming the past : essays on law in history and history in law, Robert W. Gordon, Stanford University, (electronic resource)
- Note
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Jul 2017)
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. The Common Law Tradition in Legal Historiography: 1. The common law tradition in American legal historiography; 2. Holmes' common law as legal and social science; Part II. Legal Historians: 3. James Willard Hurst, against the common law tradition - social-legal history's pioneer; 4. Hurst recaptured; 5. Morton Horwitz and his critics: a conflict of narratives; 6. The elusive transformation; 7. Method and politics: Horwitz on lawyers' uses of history; 8. E. P. Thompson's legacies; 9. Owen Fiss, the constitution of liberal order at the 'Troubled Beginnings of the Modern State'; Part III. History and Historicism in Legal History and Argument: 10. Historicism in legal scholarship; 11. Critical legal histories; 12. The past as authority and social critic; 13. Taming the past: three lectures on history in legal argument; 14. Originalism and nostalgic traditionalism; 15. Undoing historical injustice
- Control code
- ssib035317056
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 424 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Governing access note
- Access restricted to subscribing institutions
- Isbn
- 9781108147668
- Isbn Type
- (ebook)
- Other physical details
- digital, PDF file(s)
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (WaSeSS)ssib035317056
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