改革时代——从1820年到1920年的一百年——已经成为创新和变革的代名词，但在许多方面，这一时期也是一个非常保守和谨慎的时期。改革带来了反应和革命，法律和文学、艺术、技术都是如此。伟大的展览和伟大的改革法案的时代也是警察部队、法院和监狱新系统化的时代。《改革时代的法律文化史》对这一时期进行了概述，重点介绍了处于法律形式和社会改革之间的人类故事：新制服的警察、犯罪抢劫犯、法官和陪审团、童工的耻辱，以及在欧洲和美国拥挤的城市和日益工业化的环境中需要睦邻友好。
《改革时代的法律文化史》以丰富的视觉和文本资源为基础，提出了一些论文，探讨了这一时期的关键文化案例研究，主题包括正义、宪法、法典、协议、论点、财产和占有、错误和法律职业。
A Cultural History of Law in the Age of Reform
The Age of Reform – the hundred years from 1820 to 1920 – has become synonymous with innovation and change but this period was also in many ways a deeply conservative and cautious one. With reform came reaction and revolution and this was as true of the law as it was of literature, art and technology. The age of Great Exhibitions and Great Reform Acts was also the age of newly systemized police forces, courts and prisons. A Cultural History of Law in the Age of Reform presents an overview of the period with a focus on human stories located in the crush between legal formality and social reform: the newly uniformed police, criminal mugshots, judge and jury, the shame of child labor, and the need for neighborliness in the crowded urban and increasingly industrial landscapes of Europe and the United States.
Drawing upon a wealth of visual and textual sources, A Cultural History of Law in the Age of Reform presents essays that examine key cultural case studies of the period on the themes of justice, constitution, codes, agreements, arguments, property and possession, wrongs, and the legal profession.
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