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The adoption of agriculture is often described as one of the most fundamental revolutions in human history, the starting point for urbanisation and specialisation. More recently the structure of the Neolithic mind has been proposed as a new cognit...

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Louisiana's legal heritage has long been a source of fascination, curiosity, and sadly, misinformation. Outsiders have viewed the legal system as an anomaly and have shunned its study because of its perceived quirkiness. Moreover, past writin...

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Sir William Berkeley (1605--1677) influenced colonial Virginia more than any other man of his era, diversifying Virginia's trade with international markets, serving as a model for the planter aristocracy, and helping to establish American sel...

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This important teaching tool and research volume brings together more than 200 period documents on topics including the settlement of Jamestown, the structure of government and society, labor, the economy, Indian-Anglo relations, and Bacon's Rebel...

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Virginia men of law constituted one of the first learned professions in colonial America, and Virginia legal culture had an important and lasting impact on American political institutions and jurisprudence. Exploring the book collections of these ...

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Virginia men of law constituted one of the first learned professions in colonial America, and Virginia legal culture had an important and lasting impact on American political institutions and jurisprudence. Exploring the book collections of these ...

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Between 1632 and 1748, Virginia's General Assembly revised the colony's statutes seven times. These revisals provide an invaluable opportunity to gauge how governors, councilors, and burgesses created a hybrid body of colonial statute la...

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Between 1632 and 1748, Virginia's General Assembly revised the colony's statutes seven times. These revisals provide an invaluable opportunity to gauge how governors, councilors, and burgesses created a hybrid body of colonial statute law that wou...

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Important Scarce Compilation of Mexican Laws Relating to Texas Translated and Published in 1839 Reprint of the only edition. With an introduction by Joseph W. McKnight describing its compilation, translation and publication. "An indispensable...

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What is the history of the Louisiana State Bar Association, and how is its two-hundred-year journey--from small, elitist guild to mandated professional association--relevant today? A Bayou Bar tracks the LSBA's many incarnations over the decades w...

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Important Scarce Compilation of Mexican Laws Relating to Texas Translated and Published in 1839 Reprint of the only edition. With an introduction by Joseph W. McKnight describing its compilation, translation and publication. "An indispensable...

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A Collection of Essays by a Leading Scholar of Early American Legal HistoryMagistrates and Pioneers collects eighteen essays by the historian Warren M. Billings. They address the main areas of his research, nineteenth century Louisiana and sevente...

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A Collection of Essays by a Leading Scholar of Early American Legal HistoryMagistrates and Pioneers collects eighteen essays by the historian Warren M. Billings. They address the main areas of his research, nineteenth century Louisiana and sevente...

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