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03443aam a2200421 i 4500 001 0BFB90C2F5D511E7B33F7C0497128E48 003 SILO 005 20180110010212 008 170123t20172017enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2017003076 020 $a 1316644006 020 $a 9781316644003 020 $a 1107193230 020 $a 9781107193239 035 $a (OCoLC)969829390 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BTCTA $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d ERASA $d YDX $d YDX $d OCLCO $d GUB $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a KF352 $b .G67 2017 084 $a LAW060000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Gordon, Robert W. $q (Robert Watson), $d 1941- $e author. 240 10 $a Works. $k Selections 245 10 $a Taming the past : $b essays on law in history and history in law / $c Robert W. Gordon, Stanford University. 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2017. 300 $a xiii, 424 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Studies in legal history 520 $a "Lawyers and judges often make arguments based on history - on the authority of precedent and original constitutional understandings. They argue both to preserve the inspirational, heroic past and to discard its darker pieces - such as feudalism and slavery, the tyranny of princes and priests, and the subordination of women. In doing so, lawyers tame the unruly, ugly, embarrassing elements of the past, smoothing them into reassuring tales of progress. In a series of essays and lectures written over forty years, Robert W. Gordon describes and analyses how lawyers approach the past and the strategies they use to recruit history for present use while erasing or keeping at bay its threatening or inconvenient aspects. Together, the corpus of work featured in Taming the Past offers an analysis of American law and society and its leading historians since 1900"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- Part I. The Common Law Tradition in Legal Historiography -- 1. The common law tradition in American legal historiography -- 2. Holmes' Common Law as legal and social science -- Part II. Legal Historians -- 3. Social-legal history's pioneer: the work of James Willard Hurst -- 4. Hurst recaptured -- 5. Morton Horwitz and his critics: a conflict of narratives -- 6. The elusive transformation [Morton Horwitz] -- 7. Method and politics: Horwitz on lawyers' uses of history -- 8. E.P. Thompson's legacies -- 9. the constitution of liberal order at the 'Troubled Beginnings of the Modern State' [Owen Fiss] -- Part III. History and Historicism in Legal History and Argument -- 10. Historicism in legal scholarship -- 11. Critical legal histories -- 12. The past as authority and social critic: stabilizing and destabilizing functions of history in legal argument -- 13. Taming the past: histories of liberal society in American legal thought -- 14. Originalism and nostalgic traditionalism -- 15. Undoing historical injustice. 650 0 $a Law $z United States $x History. 650 7 $a LAW $x Legal History. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Law. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00993678 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 $a Studies in legal history. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231019011550.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0BFB90C2F5D511E7B33F7C0497128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search