Mansfield Manuscripts and the Growth of English Law in the Eighteenth Century: Volume II

In the eighteenth century, the English common law courts laid the foundation that continues to support present-day Anglo-American law. Lord Mansfield, Chief Jus

She argues that the historical realignment of the categories of class, kinship, and representation that took place with the shift from patriarchal to egalitaria

Over the long eighteenth century English governance was transformed by large adjustments to the legal instruments and processes of power. This book documents an