The Justices of the Peace, 1679-1760
by Landau, Norma
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0520046234
- ISBN 13
- 9780520046238
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
Berkeley/Los Angeles/London: University of California Press, 1984. Scholarly study of British government, which was controlled internally by local Justices, usually members of the landed elite, while Parliament concerned itself with international & financial affairs; Landau examines the point of view of these justices, who they were, and why they acted as they did. The author's first book; she was, and as of this cataloguing, still is, professor of history at UC - Davis. Hardcovedr in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book; jacket has minor edgwear, one tint tear; name/address label and light crease to free endsheet. Text clean; xv, blank, 421 pages; index, bibliography of menuscript sources, appendixes, tables.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.
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- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- v0766
- Title
- The Justices of the Peace, 1679-1760
- Author
- Landau, Norma
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0520046234
- ISBN 13
- 9780520046238
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley/Los Angeles/London
- Date Published
- 1984
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Administration, English Law, Politics, Authority, Rule of Law, Government, Stuart England, Hanoverian England
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