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A wide-ranging history of the way legal scholars & judges have conceptualized the subject of torts, the reasons why changes in certain rules & doctrines have occurred, & the people who brought about these changes. White approaches his subject from four perspectives: intellectual history, the sociology of knowledge, the phenomenon of professionalization in the late 19th & 20th centuries in America, & the recurrent concerns of tort law since its emergence as a discrete field. He puts the intellectual history of this unique branch of law into the general picture of philosophy, sociology, & literature in what is not only a major work of legal scholarship but a tour de force for anyone interested in American intellectual history.
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"White has confirmed his reputation as one of the foremost figures in the field of American legal history."--Harvard Law Review
"[White] makes convincing sequence out of the muddy history of American tort law, tracing it from Victorian concepts of punishable wrongdoing through the dark thickets of negligence, contributory negligence and last clear chance, to the myriad modern conceptions of how the cost of accidents should be apportioned among the public....It is a brilliant and imaginative essay."--Louis Auchincloss
"An exciting chronicle of the development of an intriguing and currently important area of the law."--Marc A. Franklin, Stanford Law School
"White broadens our understanding of why we think of the law as we do and deepens our insight into its historical foundations."--Edward Purcell, author of The Crisis of Democratic Theory
G. Edward White, Professor of Law, University of Virginia Law School.
Review:
"White has confirmed his reputation as one of the foremost figures in the field of American legal history."--Harvard Law Review
"[White] makes convincing sequence out of the muddy history of American tort law, tracing it from Victorian concepts of punishable wrongdoing through the dark thickets of negligence, contributory negligence and last clear chance, to the myriad modern conceptions of how the cost of accidents should be apportioned among the public....It is a brilliant and imaginative essay."--Louis Auchincloss
"An exciting chronicle of the development of an intriguing and currently important area of the law."--Marc A. Franklin, Stanford Law School
"White broadens our understanding of why we think of the law as we do and deepens our insight into its historical foundations."--Edward Purcell, author of The Crisis of Democratic Theory
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- PublisherDiane Pub Co
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 0756791405
- ISBN 13 9780756791407
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages283
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