Law and English Railway Capitalism 1825-1875
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 16 October 1997
- ISBN 9780198265672
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages432 pages
- Size 234x156x25 mm
- Weight 647 g
- Language English
- Illustrations halftones, tables, maps 0
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Short description:
Law and English Railway Capitalism 1825-1875 is the first full-scale historical study of the relationship between the English legal system and a leading sector of early English industrial enterprise. It offers a provocative interpretation of the profound but ambiguous engagement of common law and lawyering with a dynamic sector of the worlds first industrial economy.
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Law and English Railway Capitalism, 1825-1875 is the first large scale historical treatment of the relationship between English law and the rise of a leading sector of 19th century industrial enterprise. The book examines the impact of English common law and lawyers on the early steam railway industry. Grounded in a wide variety of legal and industrial source materials, the studys eight analytical narrative chapters examine a range of interactions between early railway capitalism and the evolving culture, doctrine, and procedures of Victorian lawyers. Subjects considered in depth include the legal ramifications of the great railway manias. law and the infiltration of the English countryside, railway accidents, corporate monopolism, and the organization of Englands first corporate legal departments. Each chapter contributes to the books ambitious general interpretation of the profound but ambiguous engagement of an antiquated but powerful legal system with a dynamic new industry.
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Introduction
Part I: Law and the Inception of Railways
Dis-organizing Capitalism: How Lawyers Made and Unmade the Railways Manias 1825-1845
A Hurricane of Litigation: The Legal Aftermath of the Railway Panic 1845-1850
Capitalism in the Lawyers' World: Railways, Private Acts and Parliamentary Legal Culture 1825-1870
The Invasion of the Land: Railways, Land Expropriation, and Legal Process 1825-1850
Part II: Law and the Operational Railways
Into the Ideological Breach: Railway Monopolism, the Small Freight War, and the Courts 1840-1872
Localism and Capitalism: Law and the Parochial Taxation of Railways 1825-1862
`The Instrumentality of Others': Railway Accidents and the Courts 1840-1875
`A Ruinous System': Railway Companies and their Lawyers 1825-1875
Conclusion: The Dialectics of Law and English Railway Capitalism 1825-1875
Appendix: A Case-Study of the Legal Department of the London and North Western Railway 1862-1875: The Problem of Personal Injury Claims
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