Arbitration and Mediation in Seventeenth-Century England
$124.41
- Hardcover
500 pages
- Release Date
22 January 2017
Summary
Despite plague, fire, political upheaval and religious strife, in the 17th century English people of all kinds used mediation and arbitration routinely to help resolve their differences. Kings and poor widows were parties. Kings and yeomen arbitrated. Francis Bacon, Edward Coke, Samuel Pepys, Robert Hooke and James I himself all took what they called arbitrament for granted as the best way of resolving all kinds of disputes they could not manage themselves. The redoubtable Lady Anne Clifford …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780957215313 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0957215312 |
| Author: | Derek Roebuck |
| Publisher: | Holo Books The Arbitration Press |
| Imprint: | Holo Books The Arbitration Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 500 |
| Release Date: | 22 January 2017 |
| Weight: | 788g |
| Dimensions: | 220mm x 140mm |
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Critics Review
‘We do not have a time-travelling machine, but we have Derek Roebuck, and that is even better: not only a way to voyage back in time, but a guide who puts everything brilliantly in context.’ Jan Paulsson Arbitration International. ‘Roebuck’s method is an engaging series of polymathic raids into the territory of geographers, ethnographers, linguists, lawyers, historians and archaeologists. ’ Sir Stephen Sedley London Review of Books
About The Author
Derek Roebuck
Derek Roebuck is a Senior Associate Research Fellow at London University’s Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. His work on dispute resolution history has produced six volumes published by HOLO Books: The Arbitration Press: Ancient Greek Arbitration (2001), Roman Arbitration (2004) with Bruno de Loynes de Fumichon, Early English Arbitration (2008), Mediation and Arbitration in the Middle Ages (2013) and The Golden Age of Arbitration (2015).
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