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  • William Blackstone

    Law and Letters in the Eighteenth Century

    by Wilfrid Prest ...
    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 ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • The Inns of Court under Elizabeth I and the Early Stuarts

    1590–1640

    by Wilfrid R. Prest ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in English Legal History
    The Tudor and Stuart inns of court were major centres of learning and literature, as well as professional associations of practising lawyers. This book sketches the evolution of the inns from their medieval origins and traces the dramatic impact of the societies' rapid expansion through the Elizabethan era and beyond. Prest's comprehensive study based on original sources surveys the structure and ... Read more

    $100.89 USD

  • Body and Mind

    Historical Essays in Honour of F.B. Smith

    by Graeme Davison, Pat Jalland, Wilfrid Prest ...
    Body and Mind pays tribute to one of Australia's most outstanding and influential historians, F. B. (Barry) Smith. Barry has made pioneering contributions to the political, social and cultural histories of Britain and Australia, and these essays range across the fields he made his own, especially the interconnected histories of medicine (body) and ideas (mind). The editors bring together several ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • The Wakefield Companion to South Australian History

    Edited by Wilfrid Prest, Kerrie Round, Sandra Kearney, Bernard O'Neil ...
    The Wakefield Companion to South Australian History is a one-volume guide to events, institutions, people, places, themes and topics of significance in the history of South Australia. It provides an authoritative and comprehensive source of historical background information, presented in readily accessible language and format. While paying attention to distinctive, innovatory and unusual elements ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • The Professions in Early Modern England

    Edited by Wilfrid Prest ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1987, The Professions in Early Modern England highlights the significant role of professional and quasi-professional occupations in English society before the industrial revolution, contrary to what was once historiographical and sociological orthodoxy. The editorial introduction provides an overview of the history of the professions as a distinct field of scholarly ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Lawyers in Early Modern Europe and America

    Edited by Wilfrid Prest ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1981, Lawyers in Early Modern Europe and America aims to present a convenient conspectus on the legal professions in early modern Europe, Scotland, France Spain and Colonial America, and to provide a comparative perspective on the place of the legal profession in Western societies before the Industrial Revolution. The main themes covered by each contributor are: the status, ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Blackstone and His Critics

    Edited by Dr Anthony Page, Emeritus Professor Wilfrid Prest ...
    William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-69) is perhaps the most elegant and influential legal text in the history of the common law. By one estimate, Blackstone has been cited well over 10,000 times in American judicial opinions alone. Prominent in recent reassessment of Blackstone and his works, Wilfrid Prest also convened the Adelaide symposia which have now generated two ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Re-Interpreting Blackstone's Commentaries

    A Seminal Text in National and International Contexts

    Edited by Emeritus Professor Wilfrid Prest ...
    This collection explores the remarkable impact and continuing influence of William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, from the work's original publication in the 1760s down to the present. Contributions by cultural and literary scholars, and intellectual and legal historians trace the manner in which this truly seminal text has established its authority well beyond the author's ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

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  • Restoration

    Charles II and His Kingdoms, 1660-1685

    by Tim Harris ...
    The late seventeenth century was a period of extraordinary turbulence and political violence in Britain, the like of which has never been seen since. Beginning with the Restoration of the monarchy after the Civil War, this book traces the fate of the monarchy from Charles II's triumphant accession in 1660 to the growing discontent of the 1680s. Harris looks beyond the popular image of Restoration ... Read more

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    The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy, 1685-1720

    by Tim Harris ...
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  • The Ends of Life

    Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England

    by Keith Thomas ...
    How should we live? That question was no less urgent for English men and women who lived between the early sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries than for this book's readers. Keith Thomas's masterly exploration of the ways in which people sought to lead fulfilling lives in those centuries between the beginning of the Reformation and the heyday of the Enlightenment illuminates the central values ... Read more

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