The Mysterious Science of the Law: An Essay on Blackstone's Commentaries (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226064987)

Referred to as the "bible of American lawyers," Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England shaped the principles of law in both England and America when its first volume appeared in 1765. For the next century that law remained what Blackstone made of it. Daniel J. Boorstin examines why Commentaries became the most essential knowledge that any lawyer needed to acquire. Set against the intellectual values of the eighteenth century-and the notions of Reason, Nature, and the Sublime--Commentaries is at last fitted into its social setting. Boorstin has provided a concise intellectual history of the time, illustrating all the elegance, social values, and internal contradictions of the Age of Reason.

Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
ISBN-10: 0226064980
ISBN-13: 9780226064987
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 06/01/1996
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.56h x 5.60w x 0.61d