Legal History Books

New and Published Books

1. Divorce in Medieval England

   From One to Two Persons in Law

   By Sara M. Butler

   Series: Routledge Research in Medieval Studies

   Divorce in Medieval England is intended to reorient scholarly perceptions concerning divorce in the medieval period. Divorce, as we think of it today, is usually considered to be a modern invention. This book challenges that viewpoint, documenting the many and varied uses of divorce in the medieval...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Ends of History

   Questioning the Stakes of Historical Reason

   Edited by Amy Swiffen, Joshua Nichols

   Over two decades ago we were confronted by the end of the Soviet Union and collapse of the geo-political divisions that had defined much of the twentieth century. From this particular end, the ‘end of history’was proclaimed. But is it still possible to argue that liberal democracy and free market...

   Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge
3. People Without Rights (Routledge Revivals)

   An Interpretation of the Fundamentals of the Law of Slavery in the U.S. South

   By Andrew Fede

   First published in September 1992, the book traces the nature and development of the fundamental legal relationships among slaves, masters, and third parties. It shows how the colonial and antebellum Southern judges and legislators accommodated slavery’s social relationships into the common law,...

   Published November 21st 2012 by Routledge
4. Banishment in the Later Roman Empire, 284-476 CE

   By Daniel Washburn

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ancient History

   This book offers a reconstruction and interpretation of banishment in the final era of a unified Roman Empire, 284-476 CE. Author Daniel Washburn argues that exile was both a penalty and a symbol. It applied to those who committed a misstep or crossed the wrong person; it also stood as a marker of...

   Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Scene of the Mass Crime

   History, Film, and International Tribunals

   Edited by Christian Delage, Peter Goodrich

   Series: Discourses of Law

   The Scene of the Mass Crime takes up the unwritten history of the peculiar yet highly visible form of war crimes trials. These trials are the first and continuing site of the interface of law, history and film. From Nuremberg to the contemporary trials in Cambodia, film, in particular, has been...

   Published November 11th 2012 by Routledge
6. Shame, Blame, and Culpability

   Crime and violence in the modern state

   Edited by Judith Rowbotham, Marianna Muravyeva, David Nash

   Series: Routledge SOLON Explorations in Crime and Criminal Justice Histories

   This ground-breaking collection of research-based chapters addresses the themes of shame, blame and culpability in their historical perspective in the broad area of crime, violence and the modern state, drawing on less familiar territories such as Russia and Greece, not just on material from...

   Published July 22nd 2012 by Routledge
7. The Fragility of Law

   Constitutional Patriotism and the Jews of Belgium, 1940–1945

   By David Fraser

   The Fragility of Law examines the ways in which, during the Second World War, the Belgian government and judicial structure became implicated in the identification, exclusion and killing of its Jewish residents, and in the theft - through Aryanization - of Jewish property. David Fraser...

   Published June 13th 2012 by Routledge-Cavendish
8. The Rise of Planning in Industrial America, 1865-1914

   By Richard Adelstein

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic History

   Central economic planning is often associated with failed state socialism, and modern capitalism celebrated as its antithesis. This book shows that central planning is not always, or even primarily, a state enterprise, and that the giant industrial corporations that dominated the American economy...

   Published March 25th 2012 by Routledge
9. Living in the City

   Urban Institutions in the Low Countries, 1200–2010

   Edited by L.A.C.J. (Leo) Lucassen, W.H. (Wim) Willems

   Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

   The city is a place to find shelter, a market place, and an elevator for social mobility and success. But the city is also a place that frightens people and that can marginalize newcomers. Living in the City tries to understand what pulls people to the city since the High Middle Ages, focusing on...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
10. A History of Police and Masculinities, 1700–2010

    Edited by David Barrie, Susan Broomhall

    This unique collection brings together leading international scholars to explore how ideologies about masculinities have shaped police culture, policy and institutional organization from the eighteenth century to the present day. It addresses an under-researched area of historical inquiry,...

    Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge