Sir Edward Coke and "The Grievances of the Commonwealth," 1621-1628

Sir Edward Coke and
Author: Stephen D. White
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2017-10-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1469639556

A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Citizenship and Identity in a Multinational Commonwealth

Citizenship and Identity in a Multinational Commonwealth
Author: Karin Friedrich
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004169830

This work is an attempt to change thinking not only on the political practice and the role of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in a European context (both East and West), but to also connect the early modern past with present notions of citizenship and participatory political systems.

Pettyfoggers and Vipers of the Commonwealth

Pettyfoggers and Vipers of the Commonwealth
Author: C. W. Brooks
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2004-06-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521890830

This work charts the huge growth of the lower branches of the legal profession in sixteenth-century England..

Challenging Orthodoxies: The Social and Cultural Worlds of Early Modern Women

Challenging Orthodoxies: The Social and Cultural Worlds of Early Modern Women
Author: Melinda S. Zook
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2016-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317168755

Offering a broad and eclectic approach to the experience and activities of early modern women, Challenging Orthodoxies presents new research from a group of leading voices in their respective fields. Each essay confronts some received wisdom, ’truth’ or orthodoxy in social and cultural, scientific and intellectual, and political and legal traditions, to demonstrate how women from a range of social classes could challenge the conventional thinking of their time as well as the ways in which they have been traditionally portrayed by scholars. Subjects include women's relationship to guns and gunpowder, the law and legal discourse, religion, public finances, and the new science in early modern Europe, as well as women and indentured servitude in the New World. A testament to the pioneering work of Hilda L. Smith, this collection makes a valuable contribution to scholarship in women’s studies, political science, history, religion and literature.

Thomas Jefferson, Legal History, and the Art of Recollection

Thomas Jefferson, Legal History, and the Art of Recollection
Author: Matthew Crow
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2017-03-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108155987

In this innovative book, historian Matthew Crow unpacks the legal and political thought of Thomas Jefferson as a tool for thinking about constitutional transformation, settler colonialism, and race and civic identity in the era of the American Revolution. Thomas Jefferson's practices of reading, writing, and collecting legal history grew out of broader histories of early modern empire and political thought. As a result of the peculiar ways in which he theorized and experienced the imperial crisis and revolutionary constitutionalism, Jefferson came to understand a republican constitution as requiring a textual, material culture of law shared by citizens with the cultivated capacity to participate in such a culture. At the center of the story in Thomas Jefferson, Legal History, and the Art of Recollection, Crow concludes, we find legal history as a mode of organizing and governing collective memory, and as a way of instituting a particular form of legal subjectivity.

Charles I and the Road to Personal Rule

Charles I and the Road to Personal Rule
Author: L. J. Reeve
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2003-10-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521521338

An analysis of the political crisis leading to Charles I's personal rule in England.

Privatised Law Reform: A History of Patent Law through Private Legislation, 1620-1907

Privatised Law Reform: A History of Patent Law through Private Legislation, 1620-1907
Author: Phillip Johnson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2017-11-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351345117

In the history of British patent law, the role of Parliament is often side-lined. This is largely due to the raft of failed or timid attempts at patent law reform. Yet there was another way of seeking change. By the end of the nineteenth century, private legislation had become a mechanism or testing ground for more general law reforms. The evolution of the law had essentially been privatised and was handled in the committee rooms in Westminster. This is known in relation to many great industrial movements such as the creating of railways, canals and roads, or political movements such as the powers and duties of local authorities, but it has thus far been largely ignored in the development of patent law. This book addresses this shortfall and examines how private legislation played an important role in the birth of modern patent law.

Royalists and Patriots

Royalists and Patriots
Author: J.P. Sommerville
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2014-06-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317882075

This well-known book reasserts the central importance of political and religious ideology in the origins of the English Civil War. Recent historiography has concentrated on its social and economic causes: Sommerville reminds us what the people of the time thought they were fighting about. Examining the main political theories in c.17th England - the Divine Right of Kings, government by consent, and the ancient constitution - he considers their impact on actual events. He draws on major political thinkers like Hobbes and Locke, but also on lesser but more representative figures, to explore what was new in these ideas and what was merely the common currency of the age. This major new edition incorporates all the latest thinking on the subject.