| Catalonia's Advocates: Lawyers, Society, and Politics in Barcelona, 1759-1900 Contributor(s): Jacobson, Stephen (Author) |
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ISBN: 146960549X ISBN-13: 9781469605494 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press OUR PRICE: $104.74 Product Type: Other - Other Formats Published: June 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Spain & Portugal - Law | Legal History - History | Social History |
| Dewey: 349.467 |
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| Publisher Description: Offering a window into the history of the modern legal profession in Western Europe, Stephen 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. Beginning with the resurrection of a decadent bar during the Enlightenment, Jacobson traces the historical evolution of lawyers throughout the long nineteenth century. Among the issues he explores are the attributes of the modern legal profession, how lawyers engaged with the Enlightenment, how they molded events in the Age of Revolution and helped consolidate a liberal constitutional order, why a liberal profession became conservative and corporatist, and how lawyers promoted fin-de-siecle nationalism. From the vantage point of a city with a distinguished legal tradition, "Catalonia's Advocates" provides fresh insight into European social and legal history; the origins of liberal professionalism; education, training, and the practice of law in the nineteenth century; the expansion of continental bureaucracies; and the corporatist aspects of modern nationalism. |