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Private Law and Social Inequality in the Industrial Age : Comparing Legal Cultures in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States

Steinmetz, Willibald (edt.)

Content

Frontmatter

p. i
Foreword

p. v

Wende, Peter
Contents

p. vii
List of Figures

p. x
List of Abbreviations

p. xi
Introduction: Towards a Comparative History of Legal Cultures, 1750-1950

p. 1

Steinmetz, Willibald
The Private Use of Public Rights: Law and Social Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Rural England

p. 45

Cocks, Raymond
Administration of Private Law or Private Jurisdiction?: The Prussian Patrimonial Courts 1820-1848

p. 69

Wienfort, Monika
Fictions of Community: Property Relations in Marriage in European and American Legal Systems of the Nineteenth Century

p. 91

Vogel, Ursula
Husbands, Wives, and Judges in Nineteenth-Century France

p. 123

Halpérin, Jean-Louis
Legal Particularism and the Complexity of Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century Germany

p. 137

Gerhard, Ute
A Moving Target: Class, Gender, and Family Law in the Nineteenth-Century United States

p. 155

Friedman, Lawrence M.
The Case of the Employment Relationship: Elements of a Comparison

p. 181

Simitis, Spiros
Industrial Tribunals and the Establishment of a Kind of Common Law of Labour in Nineteenth-Century France

p. 203

Cottereau, Alain
Master and Servant in England: Using the Law in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

p. 227

Hay, Douglas
Was there a De-juridification of Individual Employment Relations in Britain?

p. 265

Steinmetz, Willibald
Master and Servant Law and Constitutional Rights in the United States during the Nineteenth Century: A Domain-Specific Analysis

p. 313

Orren, Karen
Urban House Tenure and Litigation in Nineteenth-Century Britain

p. 337

Englander, David
Landlords, Tenants, and the Law: Paris, 1850-1920

p. 359

Magri, Susanna
Tenancy in Germany between 1871 and 1914: Norms and Reality

p. 381

Repgen, Tilman
Landlord-Tenant Courts in New York City at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

p. 411

Chused, Richard H.
Usury in France in the Nineteenth Century

p. 437

Valente, Fabien
Defining the Common Good and Social Justice: Popular and Legal Concepts of Wucher in Germany from the 1860s to the 1920s

p. 457

Geyer, Martin H.
Creditors, Debtors, and the Law in Victorian and Edwardian England

p. 485

Johnson, Paul
The Action was outside the Courts: Consumer Injuries and the Uses of Contract in the United States, 1875-1945

p. 505

Purcell Jr., Edward A.
Notes on Contributors

p. 537
Index

p. 541

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In Series:: Studies of the German Historical Institute London
(2000)
Date Issued:: 2000
ISBN:: 978-0-19-920236-2
Language:: English
Type of Resource:: Text
Extent:: XII, 565 Seiten
Place Term:: Oxford
Publisher:: Oxford University Press
Publisher (creation):: Deutsches Historisches Institut London
Keywords:: Soziale Ungleichheit^GND; Bürgerliches Recht^GND; Privatrecht^GND; Rechtsvergleich^GND; Geschichte 1820-1945
Epoch:
Land / Region:: Europe
DDC subject:: 941 Geschichte Großbritanniens und Irlands
DDC subject:: 944 Geschichte Frankreichs und Monacos
DDC subject:: 943 Geschichte Mitteleuropas; Deutschlands
DDC subject:: 973 Geschichte der USA
DDC subject:: 340.09 Legal History
Epoch:: Neuzeit / Neuere Geschichte (1789 - 1918)
Epoch:: Zeitgeschichte (1918 - 1945)
Hosting institution:: German Historical Institute London

Studies of the German Historical Institute London

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