The Mysterious Science of the Law

An Essay on Blackstone's Commentaries

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Daniel J Boorstin

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Referred to as the "bible of American lawyers," Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England shaped the principles of law in both England and America when its first volume appeared in 1765. For the next century that law remained what Blackstone made of it. Daniel J. Boorstin examines why Commentaries became the most essential knowledge that any lawyer needed to acquire. Set against the intellectual values of the eighteenth century-and the notions of Reason, Nature, and the Sublime—Commentaries is at last fitted into its social setting. Boorstin has provided a concise intellectual history of the time, illustrating all the elegance, social values, and internal contradictions of the Age of Reason.

Author Biography:

Daniel J. Boorstin, the former Librarian of Congress, is the author of The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson and is the editor of An American Primer and the series, The Chicago History of American Civilization.

Release date NZ

June 1st, 1996

Author

Daniel J Boorstin

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

264

Dimensions

14x22x2

ISBN-13

9780226064987

Product ID

10095002

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