Catalonia's advocates : lawyers, society, and politics in Barcelona, 1759-1900 /
Offering a window into the history of the modern legal profession in Western Europe, Jacobson presents a history of lawyers in the most industrialized city on the Mediterranean. Far from being mere curators of static law, Barcelona's lawyers were at the center of social conflict and political a...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2009.
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| Series: | Studies in legal history.
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Full text (Emmanuel users only) |
| Summary: | Offering a window into the history of the modern legal profession in Western Europe, Jacobson presents a history of lawyers in the most industrialized city on the Mediterranean. Far from being mere curators of static law, Barcelona's lawyers were at the center of social conflict and political and economic change, mediating between state, family, and society. Jacobson provides fresh insight into European social and legal history; the origins of liberal professionalism; the education, training, and practice of law in the 19th century; the expansion of continental bureaucracies; and the corporati. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 336 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-325) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780807899175 0807899178 9781469605494 146960549X 0807832979 9780807832974 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |