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the story of lawmakers, and the law we have lived by, from the earliest times to the present day

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The law

the story of lawmakers, and the law we have lived by, from the earliest times to the present day

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Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pages
609

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Table of Contents

Pt. 1 The Jews : Moses ; Jesus
Pt. 2 The Greeks : Homer ; Solon ; Lycurgus ; Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
Pt. 3 The Romans : The Ten Men ; Appius Claudius Caecus and the Gracchi ; Cicero ; Augustus ; Hadrian and Julian ; The Big Five and the Roman Law ; Justinian
Pt. 4 The German Barbarians and the Feudal System : The German Law Speakers ; Charlemagne
Pt. 5 The Churchmen : St. Augustine ; Canon Law and Aquinas
Pt. 6 The Western Europeans : Bartolus ; Luther and Calvin ; Alciati and Cujas ; Five Reformers ; Napoleon ; Marx and Engels
Pt. 7 The English : William the Conqueror ; The Law of the Land Emerges ; Edward I ; Elizabethan Rivals: Coke and Bacon ; Hobbes and Locke ; After the Industrial Revolution
Pt. 8 The Americans : The Early Colonials ; The Firebrands ; Hamilton and Madison ; John Marshall ; Thomas Jefferson ; Andrew Jackson ; James Kent and State Law ; Abraham Lincoln ; The Liberals of the Age of Laissez Faire ; Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ; Franklin D. Roosevelt ; Roscoe Pound and Legal Philosophy
Pt. 9 The Internationals : The Merchants ; Gentilis and Grotius ; The Building Period ; The First "Big Three" ; Hitler and the Second "Big Three"
The Future.

Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Genre
Popular works., Ouvrages de vulgarisation.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
340.9
Library of Congress
K40 .W67 1949

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 609 p. :
Number of pages
609

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24212180M
Internet Archive
lawstoryoflawmak00worm
LCCN
04950093, 49050093
OCLC/WorldCat
43740976

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