TY - BOOK AU - Kreitner,Roy TI - Calculating promises: the emergence of modern American contract doctrine SN - 9780804768054 AV - KF801 .K74 2007 U1 - 346.7302 23 PY - 2007/// CY - Stanford, Calif. PB - Stanford University Press KW - Contracts KW - United States KW - History KW - Promise (Law) KW - Law KW - ukslc KW - Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law KW - thema N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - Presents the history of American contract law around the turn of the twentieth century. This book details shifts in our conception of contract by juxtaposing scholarly accounts of contract with case law, and shows how the cases exhibit conflicts for which scholarship offers just one of many possible answers UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9780804753982.001.0001 ER -