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  • Ralop and Osborne

    Illustrated by Ian Ward ...
    Ralop had known Osborne since he was a pup and guided him through the tough harsh environment, and Osborne looked up to, and admired the knowledgeable Polar bear. However, Ralop never lost his sense of fun, and would tease whenever he could. This migration south was to be different; new friends, unexpected dangers and even romance in the air - but never turn your back for a moment. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Law, History, Text

    Writing Ironic Legal Histories

    by Ian Ward ...
    Series series Transforming Legal Histories
    This book presents a fresh approach to the writing of legal history as an essentially textual enterprise. It argues that to write any history is to tell a story. In doing so, it appreciates the place not just of context and contingency in the history of law but also of humanity. Law is a human creation, for which reason it accommodates both reason and romance. Absent sensibility, it makes no sense ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • A Cultural History of Law in the Age of Reform

    Edited by Professor Ian Ward ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    The Age of Reform – the hundred years from 1820 to 1920 - has become synonymous with innovation and change but this period was also in many ways a deeply conservative and cautious one. With reform came reaction and revolution and this was as true of the law as it was of literature, art and technology. The age of Great Exhibitions and Great Reform Acts was also the age of newly systemized police ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • English Legal Histories

    English Legal Histories is an exciting and innovative approach to the study of English law. Written in an accessible style intended for students as well as a broader audience, it takes the reader beyond the narrower confines of legal doctrines and cases, and invites them to consider the myriad contexts within which English law has been shaped: the politics, the economics, the art, the poetry. ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • The Reformation of the Constitution

    Law, Culture and Conflict in Jacobean England

    This book revisits one of the defining judicial engagements in English legal history.It provides a fresh account of the years 1606 to 1616 which witnessed a series of increasingly volatile confrontations between, on the one side, King James I and his Attorney-General, Sir Francis Bacon, and on the other, Sir Edward Coke, successively Chief Justice of Common Pleas and Lord Chief Justice.At the ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England

    The Victorians worried about many things, prominent among their worries being the 'condition' of England and the 'question' of its women. Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England revisits these particular anxieties, concentrating more closely upon four 'crimes' which generated especial concern amongst contemporaries: adultery, bigamy, infanticide and prostitution. Each engaged questions of ... Read more

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  • The Trials of Charles I

    One of the iconic moments in English history, the trial and execution of King Charles I has yet to be studied in-depth from a contemporary legal perspective. Professor Ian Ward brings his considerable legal and historical acumen to bear on the particular constitutional issues raised by the regicide of Charles, and not only analyses the unfolding of events and their immediate historical context, ... Read more

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  • Impassioned Jurisprudence

    Law, Literature, and Emotion, 1760–1848

    Series series Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures
    In this volume of essays, scholars of the interdisciplinary field of law and literature write about the role of emotion in English law and legal theory in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The law’s claims to reason provided a growing citizenry that was beginning to establish its rights with an assurance of fairness and equity. Yet, an investigation of the rational discourse of ... Read more

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  • Justice, Humanity and the New World Order

    by Ian Ward ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2003.Justice, Humanity and the New World Order offers a refreshing analysis of current jurisprudential concerns regarding the new world order, by examining them in the intellectual context of the late eighteenth-century Enlightenment. After setting the historical context, the author investigates aspects of Enlightenment political culture as well as aspects of the ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Writing the Victorian Constitution

    by Ian Ward ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book charts the writing of the English constitution through the work of four of the most influential jurists in the history of English constitutional thought—Edmund Burke, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Walter Bagehot and Albert Venn Dicey. Stretching from the French Revolution to the death of Queen Victoria, their writing is both representative of and formative to the Victorian constitution. Ian ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Introduction to Critical Legal Theory

    by Ian Ward ...
    Introduction to Critical Legal Theory provides an accessible introduction to the study of law and legal theory. It covers all the seminal movements in classical, modern and postmodern legal thought, engaging the reader with the ideas of jurists as diverse as Aristotle, Hobbes and Kant, Marx, Foucault and Dworkin. At the same time, it impresses the interdisciplinary nature of critical legal thought ... Read more

    $72.99 USD