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Shifting the Blame: Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth Century America
Shifting the Blame Literature Law and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth Century America
Author: Nan Goodman
When someone gets hurt in an accident we reflexively ask a set of questions which ultimately comes down to "who was blameworthy?" Yet early nineteenth-century Americans were entirely, and to the modern reader, astonishingly, uninterested in this line of reasoning. Their concern was whether an accident had happened and not why. Nan...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780415926843
ISBN-10: 041592684X
Publication Date: 12/20/1999
Pages: 216
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Publisher: Routledge
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