An ungovernable people: the English and their law in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
An ungovernable people: the English and their law in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Law of the United Kingdom and Ireland > England and Wales > From Henry VIII (1547) to ca. 1775
Edition Details
- Creator or Attribution (Responsibility): John A. Styles
- Language: English
- Jurisdiction(s): New Jersey
- Publication Information: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1980
- Publication Type (Medium): History
- Type: Book
- Permalink: https://books.lawi.org.uk/an-ungovernable-people-the-english-and-their-law-in-the-seventeenth-and-eighteenth-centuries/ (Stable identifier)
Short Description
400 pages, [4] leaves of plates : ILlustrations ; 23 cm
Purpose and Intended Audience
Useful for students learning an area of law, An ungovernable people: the English and their law in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is also useful for lawyers seeking to apply the law to issues arising in practice.
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Bibliographic information
- Responsable Person: edited by John Brewer and John Styles.
- Publication Date: 1980
- Country/State: New Jersey
- Number of Editions: 28 editions
- First edition Date: 1972
- Last edition Date: 1983
- Languages: British English
- Library of Congress Code: KD612
- Dewey Code: 340.1150942
- ISBN: 0813508916 9780813508917 0813509769 9780813509761
- OCLC: 6096232
Publisher Description:
The English and Their Law in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Main Contents
Two concepts of order: justices, constables, and jurymen in seventeenth-century England / Keith Wrightson
Grain riots and popular attitudes to the law: Maldon and the crisis of 1629 / John Walter
‘A set of ungovernable people’: the Kingswood colliers in the eighteenth century / Robert W. Malcolmson
The Wilkites and the law, 1763-74: a study of radical notions of governance / John Brewer
‘Our traitorious money makers’: the Yorkshire coiners and the law, 1760-83 / John Styles
The King’s Bench prison in the later eighteenth century: law, authority, and order in a London debtors’ prison / Joanna Innes.
Summary Note
The English and Their Law in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries ”
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