TY - BOOK AU - Jacobson,Stephen TI - Catalonia's advocates: lawyers, society, and politics in Barcelona, 1759-1900 T2 - Studies in legal history SN - 9781469605494 AV - KKT6071.A197 .J33 2014 U1 - 349.467 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Chapel Hill PB - The University of North Carolina Press KW - Law KW - Spain KW - Catalonia KW - History KW - Barcelona KW - Lawyers KW - Practice of law KW - ukslc KW - European history KW - thema KW - Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - Offering a window into the history of the modern legal profession in Western Europe, this book presents a history of lawyers in the most industrialised city on the Mediterranean. Far from being mere curators of static law, Barcelona's lawyers were at the centre 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, this book traces the historical evolution of lawyers throughout the long nineteenth century UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/9780807899175_jacobson ER -