Private law and social inequality in the industrial age : comparing legal cultures in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States / edited by Willibald Steinmetz.
2000
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Title
Private law and social inequality in the industrial age : comparing legal cultures in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States / edited by Willibald Steinmetz.
Published
London : German Historical Institute ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Call Number
K600 .P75 2000
Former Call Number
Comp 312 P939 2000
ISBN
0199202362
Description
xii, 565 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)42463247
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
1
Introduction: Towards a Comparative History of Legal Cultures, 1750-1950 / Willibald Steinmetz
1
2
The Private Use of Public Rights: Law and Social Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Rural England / Raymond Cocks
45
3
Administration of Private Law or Private Jurisdiction? The Prussian Patrimonial Courts, 1820-1848 / Monika Wienfort
69
4
Fictions of Community: Property Relations in Marriage in European and American Legal Systems of the Nineteenth Century / Ursula Vogel
91
5
Husbands, Wives, and Judges in Nineteenth-Century France / Jean-Louis Halperin
123
6
Legal Particularism and the Complexity of Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century Germany / Ute Gerhard
137
7
A Moving Target: Class, Gender, and Family Law in the Nineteenth-Century United States / Lawrence M. Friedman
155
8
The Case of the Employment Relationship: Elements of a Comparison / Spiros Simitis
181
9
Industrial Tribunals and the Establishment of a Kind of Common Law of Labour in Nineteenth-Century France / Alain Cottereac
203
10
Master and Servant in England: Using the Law in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries / Douglas Hay
227
11
Was there a De-juridification of Individual Employment Relations in Britain? / Willibald Steinmetz
265
12
Master and Servant Law and Constitutional Rights in the United States during the Nineteenth Century: A Domain-Specific Analysis / Karen Orren
313
13
Urban House Tenure and Litigation in Nineteenth-Century Britain / David Englander
337
14
Landlords, Tenants, and the Law: Paris, 1850-1920 / Susanna Magri
359
15
Tenancy in Germany between 1871 and 1914: Norms and Reality / Tilman Repgen
381
16
Landlord-Tenant Courts in New York City at the Turn of the Twentieth Century / Richard H. Chused
411
17
Usury in France in the Nineteenth Century / Fabien Valente
437
18
Defining the Common Good and Social Justice: Popular and Legal Concepts of Wucher in Germany from the 1860s to the 1920s / Martin H. Geyer
457
19
Creditors, Debtors, and the Law in Victorian and Edwardian England / Paul Johnson
485
20
The Action was outside the Courts: Consumer Injuries and the Uses of Contract in the United States, 1875-1945 / Edward A. Purcell, Jr.
505
Notes on Contributors
537
Index
541