William Blackstone: Law and Letters in the Eighteenth Century - Image 1

£41.63

Oxford University Press William Blackstone: Law and Letters in the Eighteenth Century

Name: William Blackstone: Law and Letters in the Eighteenth Century
Brand: Oxford University Press
Price: 41.63 GBP
Availability: InStock

Illustrated

Britain

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

£42 today · previous high £42 · all-time low £17

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 84 days · 84 data points (no recent data)

Historical

Generating forecast…

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 84 days • 5 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £42 (51 days, 60.7%)

Price range: £17 - £42

Price levels: 5 different prices over 84 days

Description

Lawyer, judge, politician, poet, teacher, and architect, William Blackstone was a major figure in eighteenth century public life. Over his varied and brilliant career he made profound contributions to English politics, law, education, and culture through involvements in legal practice, Parliament, and the University of Oxford. Throughout he also remained engaged in his society's literary and spiritual life. Despite the breadth and influence of his work, Blackstone the man remains little known and poorly understood, the lack of engagement with his public and private life standing in stark contrast to the scale of his influence, particularly on the development and teaching of the law. Blackstone's 'Commentaries on the Laws of England' remains the most celebrated and influential text in the Anglo-American common-law tradition. This great book has inevitably overshadowed its author, while the dispersal of his personal and professional papers further complicates the task of understanding the man behind the work. The lack of a thorough account of Blackstone's life has fuelled controversy surrounding his intellectual background and political views. Was he the deeply reactionary conservative painted by Bentham, or rather a committed reformer and early champion of human rights? The present biography makes full use of a considerable body of new evidence that has emerged in recent years to shed light on the life, work, and times of this neglected figure in English and American history. Exploring Blackstone's family upbringing and private life, his political activities and ideology, his religious outlook, and championing of the enlightenment, this book weaves together the threads of an extraordinary mind and career.

Product Specifications

Brand: Oxford University Press
Model: Illustrated
Format: paperback
ASIN: 0199652015
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Historical > Britain
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 26 January 2012
Listed Since: 07 September 2011

Barcode

No barcode data available

Oxford University Press William Blackstone: Law and Letters in the Eighteenth Century

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Blackstone and His Critics

Re-Interpreting Blackstone's Commentaries: A Seminal Text in National and International Contexts

The Oxford Edition of Blackstone's: Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book I, II, III, and IV: Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book I, II, III, and IV Pack

The Oxford Edition of Blackstone's: Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book I, II, III, and IV

Reason Over Precedents: Origins of American Legal Thought: 73 (Contributions in Legal Studies)

Loving Justice: Legal Emotions in William Blackstone's England

Early Modern Natural Law Theories: Context and Strategies in the Early Enlightenment: 186 (International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, 186)

Springer Early Modern Natural Law Theories - History Book 186

Commentaries on the Laws of England – A Facsimile of the First Edition of 1765–1769 4V Set

Law, Crime and English Society, 16601830

British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century

Natural Law and Moral Philosophy: From Grotius to the Scottish Enlightenment

Common Law and Enlightenment in England, 1689-1750 (Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History)

Les droits du genre humain : la liberté en France et en Angleterre, 1159-1793 (Tome 2)

The British and their Laws in the Eighteenth Century

Routledge - Kings and Desperate Men: Life in 18th-Century England

George Buchanan: Political Thought in Early Modern Britain and Europe

The Community of the College of Justice: Edinburgh and the Court of Session, 1687-1808

Baker and Milsom Sources of English Legal History: Private Law to 1750

Daily Life in 18th-Century England (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series)

The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century

The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century

China in Early Enlightenment Political Thought (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)

THE COMMON LAW IN COLONIAL AMERICA VOLUME 2: Volume II: The Middle Colonies and the Carolinas, 1660-1730