Daniel Lord Smail
Books by Daniel Lord Smail
The Consumption of Justice
by Daniel Lord Smail
I very much appreciate his approach which is the consumer’s view of the law. Again, history from the bottom up. He asks why people went to court and he comes up with a surprising answer. He says that it was not so much for the actual compensation, which they often didn’t get, but rather for emotional satisfaction.
Interviews where books by Daniel Lord Smail were recommended
The best books on Chaos in the 17th-Century Mediterranean, recommended by Molly Greene
Princeton professor of Hellenic studies says the 17th-century Mediterranean is fascinating because it was a time when nobody was in charge. And yet, it was possible to have “order without law”
