A "strong, fluent, and valuable" (New York Law Journal) look at the evolution of the American legal system. Amid the current wave of skepticism about the American legal system, a leading critical legal theorist offers a daring new interpretation of the evolution of the law. Drawing on an impressive range of sources -- from classic texts by Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels, to lectures by Norman Mailer and the critical legal studies theory of Morton Horwitz -- Law and History explores what the author calls "the intriguing mystery of how law and history fit together."
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Law and History is stimulating and invites needed debate... [I]t merits reading by those concerned with our legal history and the forces that shape it. -- New York Law Journal
This survey of the way colonial and U.S. law has been affected by the development of capitalism. . . makes its point. -- The National Law Journal
[A] dazzling synthesis of the most relevant literature in law, history, and the social sciences... Original and relentlessly readable. -- Robert Pollin, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
[A] welcome addition to the library of educated lay readers... [Chase] offers a sense of the broad sweep of the history of American law. -- New Politics
[An] exhilarating, learned, and thoughtful feast of ideas and insights. -- Stanley I. Kutler, Fox Professor of American Institutions, University of Wisconsin
This survey of the way colonial and U.S. law has been affected by the development of capitalism. . . makes its point. -- The National Law Journal
[A] dazzling synthesis of the most relevant literature in law, history, and the social sciences... Original and relentlessly readable. -- Robert Pollin, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
[A] welcome addition to the library of educated lay readers... [Chase] offers a sense of the broad sweep of the history of American law. -- New Politics
[An] exhilarating, learned, and thoughtful feast of ideas and insights. -- Stanley I. Kutler, Fox Professor of American Institutions, University of Wisconsin
About the Author
Anthony Chase teaches law at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He has published articles in the nation's leading legal journals, including Yale Law Journal, University of Michigan Law Review, and New York University Law Review. This is his first book.
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