This is an amazing book, but it demands a strong historical and legal vocabulary, knowledge, and even research experience. Inappropriate for undergraduate courses, and not meant for the common reader, this is a great book for legal scholars and historians. It is particularly well suited to be used with "Sources of English Legal History." Baker is a formalist, who repeatedly demonstrates to the more sociological and 'critical theory' scholars the importance of simply knowing how legal machinery and documents operated and changed over long periods of time. I say that as someone who may come to alternative understandings (than the ones Baker may hold) about why and how the law shaped political, economic, and social relations.
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An Introduction to English Legal History Paperback – 24 June 2002
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This book traces the development of the principal features of English legal institutions and doctrines from Anglo-Saxon times to the present. It has become a standard work on the subject. It has now been updated and improved in consequence of the rapid pace of research in legal history over recent years, which has made this new edition a necessity.
- ISBN-100406930538
- ISBN-13978-0406930538
- Edition4th
- PublisherOxford University Press UK
- Publication date24 June 2002
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions24.54 x 3.18 x 15.93 cm
- Print length656 pages
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J.H. Baker, Downing Professor of the Laws of England and Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge; Honorary Bencher of the Inner Temple
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J.H. Baker, Downing Professor of the Laws of England and Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge; Honorary Bencher of the Inner Temple
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- Publisher : Oxford University Press UK; 4th edition (24 June 2002)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 656 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0406930538
- ISBN-13 : 978-0406930538
- Dimensions : 24.54 x 3.18 x 15.93 cm
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- sjm53Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 September 2017
5.0 out of 5 stars First-Rate Social History
Verified PurchaseI got this out of interest, not because I need it for study. I should really have read something simpler first, as the text makes no allowance for the neophyte. Page 59, for example, deals with writs in pone, and the note helpfully informs the reader that "the pone formula also occurs in novel disseisin". I persevered, however, and once I got my bearings I enjoyed the book as a first rate work of social history, where we hear the people of England speaking - not just judges and lawyers, but the carriers, farmers, drapers and brewers whose dealings have been preserved in records going back to the thirteenth century.
- Cristinar72Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 September 2017
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolute must for Law students
Verified PurchaseAbsolute must for all Law students. It's a great reading from which gather a lot of important information which will come to good use in researches as much as essays.
I recommend, highly!