Well after the process of codification had begun elsewhere in
nineteenth-century Europe, ancient Roman law remained in use in
Germany, expounded by brilliant scholars and applied in both urban
and rural courts. The survival of this flourishing Roman legal
culture into the industrial era is a familiar fact, but until now
little effort has been made to explain it outside the province of
specialized legal history. James Whitman seeks to remedy this
neglect by exploring the broad political and cultural significance
of German Roman law, emphasizing the hope on the part of German
Roman lawyers that they could in some measure revive the Roman
social order in their own society. Discussing the background of
Romantic era law in the law of the Reformation, Whitman makes the
great German tradition of legal scholarship more accessible to all
those interested in German history. Drawing on treatises already
known to legal historians as well as on previously unexploited
records of legal practice, Whitman traces the traditions that
allowed nineteenth-century German lawyers like Savigny to present
themselves as uniquely "impartial" and "unpolitical." This book
will be of particular interest to students of the many German
thinkers who were trained as Roman lawyers, among them Marx and
Weber. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library
uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy
Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
General
Imprint: |
Princeton University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Princeton Legacy Library |
Release date: |
April 2016 |
First published: |
1990 |
Authors: |
James Q. Whitman
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Trade binding
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Pages: |
300 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-691-63392-3 |
Categories: |
Books >
Law >
Jurisprudence & general issues >
Legal history
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LSN: |
0-691-63392-4 |
Barcode: |
9780691633923 |
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