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Law and Society in England 1750-1950 is an indispensable text for those wishing to study English legal history and to understand the foundations of the modern British state. In this new updated edition the authors explore the complex relationship between legal and social change. They consider the ways in which those in power themselves imagined and initiated reform and the ways in which they were obliged to respond to demands for change from outside the legal and political classes.

What emerges is a lively and critical account of the evolution of modern rights and expectations, and an engaging study of the formation of contemporary social, administrative and legal institutions and ideas, and the road that was travelled to create them.

The book is divided into eight chapters: Institutions and Ideas; Land; Commerce and Industry; Labour Relations; The Family; Poverty and Education; Accidents; and Crime.
This extensively referenced analysis of modern social and legal history will be invaluable to students and teachers of English law, political science, and social history.

Law and Society in England 1750-1950

CHAPTER ONE. INSTITUTIONS AND IDEAS

Part 1: Industrialisation 1750-1875

Part 2: Passing Greatness 1875-1950



CHAPTER TWO. LAND

Part 1: Agricultural Exploitation 1750-1850

Part 2: Urban Conditions and Land Values 1750-1850



CHAPTER THREE. COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY

Part 1: Contract

Part 2: Debt, Bankruptcy, Insolvency

Part 3: The Limited Liability Company

Part 4: Legal Control of Anti-Competitive Activity

Part 5: Technological Advance and The Patent System



CHAPTER FOUR. LABOUR RELATIONS

Part 1: Service and Its Regulation 1760-1875

Part 2: Employment 1875-1950



CHAPTER FIVE. THE FAMILY

Part 1: Private Family Law 1750-1850

Part 2: New Pressures on Family Law: 1850-1950



CHAPTER SIX. POVERTY AND EDUCATION

Part 1: Destitution in Country and Town 1750-1890

Part 2: Schools: Learning and Mass Literacy to 1890

Part 3: Poor Relief and Its Alternatives

Part 4: Education - The Modern Structure



CHAPTER SEVEN. ACCIDENTS

Part 1: Compensation by Civil Suits

Part 2: Planning Against Accidents



CHAPTER EIGHT. CRIME

Part 1: The Era of The Bloody Code

Part 2: Criminal Justice Transformed

Part 3: Into The Twentieth Century