Focusing on everyday legal experiences, from that of magistrates,
novelists and political philosophers, to maidservants, pauper men
and women, down-at-heel attorneys and middling-sort wives in their
coverture, History and the Law reveals how people thought about,
used, manipulated and resisted the law between the eighteenth and
the twentieth centuries. Supported by clear, engaging examples
taken from the historical record, and from the writing of
historians including Laurence Sterne, William Godwin, and E. P.
Thompson, who each had troubled love affairs with the law, Carolyn
Steedman puts the emphasis on English poor laws, copyright law, and
laws regarding women. Evocatively written and highly original,
History and the Law accounts for historians' strange ambivalent
love affair with the law and with legal records that appear to
promise access to so many lives in the past.
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