Description: In a discussion that will fascinate the general reader as much as the historian or lawyer, this book traces the origins and development of our present legal system in terms of the struggle between a rising capitalist society and declining feudal structure. But it also demonstrates that the the ideas of law shaped the changes in society as much as society shaped law. Against a backdrop of seven hundred years of bourgeois struggle, eminent lawyer and educator, Michael E. Tigar, develops with Madeleine Levy a Marxist theory of law and jurisprudence based upon the Western experience. This well-researched and documented study traces the role of law and lawyers in the European bourgeoisie's acquisition of power and in the process complements the analyses of such major figures as R.H. Tawney and Max Weber. Using a wide range of primary sources, they demonstrate that the legal theory of insurgent bourgeoisie predated the Protestant Reformation and was a major ideological ingredient of the bourgeois revolution. For every sale made, Billowness Books donates 50p to a literacy charity: Book Aid International; Books Abroad; or the World Literacy Foundation.
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Subject Area: Marxism, Legal Theory, History
Publication Name: Law and the Rise of Capitalism
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Subject: Law, Marxist Philosophy, Western History
Publication Year: 1977
Type: Textbook
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Educational Level: Adult & Further Education
Author: Michael Tigar & Madeleine Levy
Level: Advanced
Features: 1st Edition
Unit Quantity: 1
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Number of Pages: 346
