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33 produkter
Oxford Handbook of Legal History
Av Christopher Tomlins, Markus D. Dubber
E-bok, 2018
2190 kr
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Some of the most exciting and innovative legal scholarship has been driven by historical curiosity. Legal history today comes in a fascinating array of shapes and sizes, from microhistory to global intellectual history. Legal history has expanded beyond traditional parochial boundaries to become …
Oxford Handbook of Legal History
Av Christopher Tomlins, Markus D. Dubber
E-bok, 2018
2190 kr
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Some of the most exciting and innovative legal scholarship has been driven by historical curiosity. Legal history today comes in a fascinating array of shapes and sizes, from microhistory to global intellectual history. Legal history has expanded beyond traditional parochial boundaries to become …
The Oxford Handbook of Legal History
Av TOMLINS DUBBER, Markus D. Dubber m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
3555 kr
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Some of the most exciting and innovative legal scholarship has been driven by historical curiosity. Legal history today comes in a fascinating array of shapes and sizes, from microhistory to global intellectual history. Legal history has expanded beyond traditional parochial boundaries to become …
The Oxford Handbook of Legal History
Av Markus D. Dubber, Christopher Tomlins
Häftad, 2025
712 kr
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Some of the most exciting and innovative legal scholarship has been driven by historical curiosity. Legal history today comes in a fascinating array of shapes and sizes, from microhistory to global intellectual history. Legal history has expanded beyond traditional parochial boundaries to become …
Rage of John Dos Passos
Inbunden, 2027
1051 kr
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A close look at the emotional and intellectual world of writer John Dos Passos, who was at one time America’s leading modernist, that reveals the political and cultural rhythms of the twentieth century.John Dos Passos (1896–1970) was a prolific writer—at once compulsive and enigmatic—who became …
Rage of John Dos Passos
Häftad, 2027
302 kr
Kommande
A close look at the emotional and intellectual world of writer John Dos Passos, who was at one time America’s leading modernist, that reveals the political and cultural rhythms of the twentieth century.John Dos Passos (1896–1970) was a prolific writer—at once compulsive and enigmatic—who became …
Freedom Bound
Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580-1865
Häftad, 2010
603 kr
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Freedom Bound is about the origins of modern America - a history of colonizing, work and civic identity from the beginnings of English presence on the mainland until the Civil War. It is a history of migrants and migrations, of colonizers and colonized, of households and servitude and slavery, and …
The Bondsman's Burden
An Economic Analysis of the Common Law of Southern Slavery
Av Jenny Bourne Wahl, Christopher Tomlins
Häftad, 2002
569 kr
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Were slaves property or human beings under the law? In crafting answers to this question, Southern judges designed efficient laws that protected property rights and helped slavery remain economically viable. But, by preserving property rights, they sheltered the persons embodied by that property - …
A Judgment for Solomon
The d'Hauteville Case and Legal Experience in Antebellum America
Av Michael Grossberg, Christopher Tomlins m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
1593 kr
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A Judgment for Solomon tells the story of the d'Hauteville case, a controversial child custody battle fought in 1840. It uses the story of one couple's bitter fight over their son to explore some timebound and timeless features of American legal culture. In a narrative analysis, it recounts how …
A Judgment for Solomon
The d'Hauteville Case and Legal Experience in Antebellum America
Av Michael Grossberg, Christopher Tomlins m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
557 kr
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A Judgment for Solomon tells the story of the d'Hauteville case, a controversial child custody battle fought in 1840. It uses the story of one couple's bitter fight over their son to explore some timebound and timeless features of American legal culture. In a narrative analysis, it recounts how …
The Bondsman's Burden
An Economic Analysis of the Common Law of Southern Slavery
Av Jenny Bourne Wahl, Christopher Tomlins
Inbunden, 1997
1995 kr
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Were slaves property or human beings under the law? In crafting answers to this question, Southern judges designed efficient laws that protected property rights and helped slavery remain economically viable. But, by preserving property rights, they sheltered the persons embodied by that property - …
Recasting American Liberty
Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865-1920
Av Barbara Young Welke, Christopher Tomlins
Inbunden, 2001
1928 kr
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Through courtroom dramas from 1865 to 1920 - of men forced to jump from moving cars when trainmen refused to stop, of women emotionally wrecked from the trauma of nearly missing a platform or street, and women barred from first class ladies' cars because of the color of their skin - Barbara Welke …
Recasting American Liberty
Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865-1920
Av Barbara Young Welke, Christopher Tomlins
Häftad, 2001
653 kr
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Through courtroom dramas from 1865 to 1920 - of men forced to jump from moving cars when trainmen refused to stop, of women emotionally wrecked from the trauma of nearly missing a platform or street, and women barred from first class ladies' cars because of the color of their skin - Barbara Welke …
Final Freedom
The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment
Av Michael Vorenberg, Christopher Tomlins
Inbunden, 2001
1214 kr
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This book examines emancipation after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. Focusing on the making and meaning of the Thirteenth Amendment, Final Freedom looks at the struggle among legal thinkers, politicians, and ordinary Americans in the North and the border states to find a way to abolish …
Free Speech in its Forgotten Years, 1870-1920
Av David M. Rabban, Christopher Tomlins
Häftad, 1999
569 kr
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Most American historians and legal scholars incorrectly assume that controversies and litigation about free speech began abruptly during World War I. However, there was substantial debate about free speech issues between the Civil War and World War I. Important free speech controversies, often …
Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century
Av Robert J. Steinfeld, Christopher Tomlins
Inbunden, 2001
1677 kr
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This book presents a fundamental reassessment of the nature of wage labor in the nineteenth century, focusing on the common use of penal sanctions in England to enforce wage labor agreements. Professor Steinfeld argues that wage workers were not employees at will but were often bound to their …
Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century
Av Robert J. Steinfeld, Christopher Tomlins
Häftad, 2001
738 kr
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This book presents a fundamental reassessment of the nature of wage labor in the nineteenth century, focusing on the common use of penal sanctions in England to enforce wage labor agreements. Professor Steinfeld argues that wage workers were not employees at will but were often bound to their …
City of Courts
Socializing Justice in Progressive Era Chicago
Av Michael Willrich, Christopher Tomlins
Inbunden, 2003
1861 kr
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What could be more 'liberal' than the modern idea of social responsibility for crime - that crime is less the product of free will than of poverty and other social forces beyond the individual's control? And what could be more 'progressive' than the belief that the law should aim for social, not …
City of Courts
Socializing Justice in Progressive Era Chicago
Av Michael Willrich, Christopher Tomlins
Häftad, 2003
502 kr
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What could be more 'liberal' than the modern idea of social responsibility for crime - that crime is less the product of free will than of poverty and other social forces beyond the individual's control? And what could be more 'progressive' than the belief that the law should aim for social, not …
The Cambridge History of Law in America
Av Michael Grossberg, Christopher Tomlins
Inbunden, 2008
3232 kr
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Volume 1 of The Cambridge History of Law in America begins the account of law in America with the very first moments of European colonization and settlement of the North American landmass. It follows those processes across two hundred years to the eventual creation and stabilization of the American …
The Cambridge History of Law in America
Av Michael Grossberg, Christopher Tomlins
Inbunden, 2008
2214 kr
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Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of Law in America focuses on the long nineteenth century (1789-1920). It deals with the formation and development of the American state system, the establishment and growth of systematic legal education, the spread of the legal profession, the growing density of …
The Cambridge History of Law in America
Av Michael Grossberg, Christopher Tomlins
Inbunden, 2008
2214 kr
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Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of Law in America covers the period from 1920 to the present, 'the American Century'. It charts a century of legal transformations, and shows how, politically, socially and culturally, the twentieth century was when law became ubiquitous in American life. Among the …
In the Matter of Nat Turner
A Speculative History
Inbunden, 2020
507 kr
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A bold new interpretation of Nat Turner and the slave rebellion that stunned the American SouthIn 1831 Virginia, Nat Turner led a band of Southampton County slaves in a rebellion that killed fifty-five whites, mostly women and children. After more than two months in hiding, Turner was captured, and …
In the Matter of Nat Turner
A Speculative History
E-bok, 2020
303 kr
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A bold new interpretation of Nat Turner and the slave rebellion that stunned the American South In 1831 Virginia, Nat Turner led a band of Southampton County slaves in a rebellion that killed fifty-five whites, mostly women and children. After more than two months in hiding, Turner was captured, …
In the Matter of Nat Turner
A Speculative History
Häftad, 2022
234 kr
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A bold new interpretation of Nat Turner and the slave rebellion that stunned the American SouthIn 1831 Virginia, Nat Turner led a band of Southampton County slaves in a rebellion that killed fifty-five whites, mostly women and children. After more than two months in hiding, Turner was captured, and …
Searching for Contemporary Legal Thought
Av Justin Desautels-Stein, Christopher Tomlins
Inbunden, 2017
1723 kr
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For more than a century, law schools have trained students to 'think like a lawyer'. In these times of legal crisis, both in legal education and in global society, what does that mean for the rest of us? In this book, thirty leading international scholars - including Louis Assier-Andrieu, Marianne …
The Cambridge History of Law in America
Av Michael Grossberg, Christopher Tomlins
Häftad, 2011
1050 kr
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Volume 1 of The Cambridge History of Law in America begins the account of law in America with the very first moments of European colonization and settlement of the North American landmass. It follows those processes across two hundred years to the eventual creation and stabilization of the American …
The Cambridge History of Law in America
Av Michael Grossberg, Christopher Tomlins
Häftad, 2011
1073 kr
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Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of Law in America focuses on the long nineteenth century (1789-1920). It deals with the formation and development of the American state system, the establishment and growth of systematic legal education, the spread of the legal profession, the growing density of …
The Cambridge History of Law in America
Av Michael Grossberg, Christopher Tomlins
Häftad, 2011
1050 kr
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Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of Law in America covers the period from 1920 to the present, 'the American Century'. It charts a century of legal transformations, and shows how, politically, socially and culturally, the twentieth century was when law became ubiquitous in American life. Among the …
Searching for Contemporary Legal Thought
Av Christopher Tomlins, Justin Desautels-Stein
E-bok, 2017
570 kr
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For more than a century, law schools have trained students to ''think like a lawyer''. In these times of legal crisis, both in legal education and in global society, what does that mean for the rest of us? In this book, thirty leading international scholars - including Louis Assier-Andrieu, …
