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This new and updated edition is an indispensable text for those wishing to study English legal history and to understand the foundations of the modern British state.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER ONE. INSTITUTIONS AND IDEAS Part 1: Industrialisation 1750–1875 Part 2: Passing Greatness 1875–1950 CHAPTER TWO. LAND Part 1: Agricultural Exploitation 1750–1850 Part 2: Urban Conditions and Land Values 1750–1850 CHAPTER THREE. COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY Part 1: Contract Part 2: Debt, Bankruptcy, Insolvency Part 3: The Limited Liability Company Part 4: Legal Control of Anti-Competitive Activity Part 5: Technological Advance and The Patent System CHAPTER FOUR. LABOUR RELATIONS Part 1: Service and Its Regulation 1760–1875 Part 2: Employment 1875–1950 CHAPTER FIVE. THE FAMILY Part 1: Private Family Law 1750–1850 Part 2: New Pressures on Family Law: 1850–1950 CHAPTER SIX. POVERTY AND EDUCATION Part 1: Destitution in Country and Town 1750–1890 Part 2: Schools: Learning and Mass Literacy to 1890 Part 3: Poor Relief and Its Alternatives Part 4: Education – The Modern Structure CHAPTER SEVEN. ACCIDENTS Part 1: Compensation by Civil Suits Part 2: Planning Against Accidents CHAPTER EIGHT. CRIME Part 1: The Era of The Bloody Code Part 2: Criminal Justice Transformed Part 3: Into The Twentieth Century

About the Author

William Cornish CMG KC (Hon) FBA is a Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Cambridge and a Life Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. Stephen Banks is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Reading. Charles Mitchell KC (Hon) FBA is a Professor of Law at University College London. Paul Mitchell is a Professor of Law at University College London. Rebecca Probert is a Professor of Law at the University of Exeter.

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The study of English legal history has been greatly enhanced and brought up-to-date with the publication of a new edition of this seminal text.
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