{"product_id":"taming-the-past-essays-on-law-in-history-and-history-in-law-paperback-9781316644003","title":"Taming the Past; Essays on Law in History and History in Law (Paperback \/ softback) 9781316644003","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTaming the Past\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEssays on Law in History and History in Law\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA critical catalogue of how lawyers use history - as authority, as evocation of lost golden ages, as a nightmare to escape and as progress towards enlightenment.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRobert W. Gordon (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781316644003, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 9 June 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e446 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.62 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'In this collection of his writings over a forty-year career, Gordon argues that lawyers and judges often make arguments based on history - on the authority of precedent and original constitutional understandings - both to preserve the inspirational, heroic past and to discard its darker pieces.' Howard S. Erlanger, Law \u0026amp; Social Inquiry\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eLawyers and judges often make arguments based on history - on the authority of precedent and original constitutional understandings. They argue both to preserve the inspirational, heroic past and to discard its darker pieces - such as feudalism and slavery, the tyranny of princes and priests, and the subordination of women. In doing so, lawyers tame the unruly, ugly, embarrassing elements of the past, smoothing them into reassuring tales of progress. In a series of essays and lectures written over forty years, Robert W. Gordon describes and analyses how lawyers approach the past and the strategies they use to recruit history for present use while erasing or keeping at bay its threatening or inconvenient aspects. Together, the corpus of work featured in Taming the Past offers an analysis of American law and society and its leading historians since 1900.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Common Law Tradition in Legal Historiography: 1. The common law tradition in American legal historiography\u003cbr\u003e 2. Holmes' common law as legal and social science\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Legal Historians: 3. James Willard Hurst, against the common law tradition - social-legal history's pioneer\u003cbr\u003e 4. Hurst recaptured\u003cbr\u003e 5. Morton Horwitz and his critics: a conflict of narratives\u003cbr\u003e 6. The elusive transformation\u003cbr\u003e 7. Method and politics: Horwitz on lawyers' uses of history\u003cbr\u003e 8. E. P. Thompson's legacies\u003cbr\u003e 9. Owen Fiss, the constitution of liberal order at the 'Troubled Beginnings of the Modern State'\u003cbr\u003e Part III. History and Historicism in Legal History and Argument: 10. Historicism in legal scholarship\u003cbr\u003e 11. Critical legal histories\u003cbr\u003e 12. The past as authority and social critic\u003cbr\u003e 13. Taming the past: three lectures on history in legal argument\u003cbr\u003e 14. Originalism and nostalgic traditionalism\u003cbr\u003e 15. Undoing historical injustice.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Legal history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Legal history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Legal%20history%20%5BLAZ%5D%22\"\u003eLAZ\u003c\/a\u003e], History of ideas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of ideas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20ideas%20%5BJFCX%5D%22\"\u003eJFCX\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46000960340248,"sku":"9781316644003","price":31.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781316644003i.jpg?v=1696731697","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/taming-the-past-essays-on-law-in-history-and-history-in-law-paperback-9781316644003","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}