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Germ of Goodness
The California State Prison System, 1851-1944
Inbunden, 1991
647 kr
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For most of the ninety-three years between 1851, when the California State Legislature faced the problem of what to do with criminals, until 1944, when it finally organized the state's four prisons into one adult penal system, the prisons at San Quentin and Folsom were the only places of …
Trial of "Indian Joe"
Race and Justice in the Nineteenth-Century West
Häftad, 2007
225 kr
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On the night of 16 October 1892, a double homicide occurred on Otay Mesa in San Diego County near the Mexican border. The two victims were an elderly couple, John and Wilhelmina Geyser, who lived on a farm on the edge of the mesa. Within minutes of discovering the crime, neighbors subdued and tied …
Slipping Backward
A History of the Nebraska Supreme Court
Inbunden, 2007
295 kr
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Slipping Backward: A History of the Nebraska Supreme Court, written by one of the state's leading legal minds, is the first history of the Nebraska Supreme Court and the first book-length study of a Great Plains supreme court. James W. Hewitt draws on his intimate knowledge of the subject matter …
Imperfect Victories
The Legal Tenacity of the Omaha Tribe, 1945-1995
Häftad, 2009
225 kr
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The Omaha Tribe of Nebraska has borne more than its fair share of the burden created by the federal government's wildly vacillating Indian policy. Mark R. Scherer's Imperfect Victories provides a detailed examination of the Omahas' tenacious efforts to overcome the damaging effects of shifting …
Law and Order in Buffalo Bill's Country
Legal Culture and Community on the Great Plains, 1867-1910
Häftad, 2009
283 kr
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Celebrated accounts of lawless towns that relied on the extra-legal justice of armed citizens and hired gunmen are part of the enduring cultural legacy of the American West. This image of the frontier has been fueled for more than a century by historians—both amateur and academic—and by various …
Slipping Backward
A History of the Nebraska Supreme Court
Häftad, 2010
283 kr
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Slipping Backward: A History of the Nebraska Supreme Court, written by one of the state's leading legal minds, is the first history of the Nebraska Supreme Court and the first book-length study of a Great Plains supreme court. James W. Hewitt draws on his intimate knowledge of the subject matter …
Women Who Kill Men
California Courts, Gender, and the Press
Av Gordon Morris Bakken, Brenda Farrington
Häftad, 2013
357 kr
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The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were a revolutionary period in the lives of women, and the shifting perceptions of women and their role in society were equally apparent in the courtroom. Women Who Kill Men examines eighteen sensational cases of women on trial for murder from 1870 …
Nebraska-Kansas Act of 1854
Av John R. Wunder, Joann M Ross
Häftad, 2008
343 kr
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The Nebraska-Kansas Act of 1854 turns upside down the traditional way of thinking about one of the most important laws ever passed in American history. The act that created Nebraska and Kansas also, in effect, abolished the Missouri Compromise, which had prohibited slavery in the region since 1820. …
In Cold Storage
Sex and Murder on the Plains
Häftad, 2015
203 kr
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2016 Nebraska Book Award In Cold Storage is an excellent history of one of the more sensational crimes in Nebraska history.- Steven Guenzel, Nebraska HistoryIn 1973 the small southwest Nebraska railroad town of McCook became the unlikely scene of a grisly murder. More than forty years later, author …
Practicing Law in Frontier California
Häftad, 2006
305 kr
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In Practicing Law in Frontier California Gordon Morris Bakken combines collective biography with an analysis of the function of the bar in a rapidly changing socioeconomic setting. Drawing on manuscript collections, Bakken considers hundreds of men and women who came to California to practice law …
Lone Wolf V. Hitchcock
Treaty Rights and Indian Law at the End of the Nineteenth Century
Av Blue Clark
Häftad, 1999
225 kr
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Landmark court cases in the history of formal U.S. relations with Indian tribes are Corn Tassel, Standing Bear, Crow Dog, and Lone Wolf. Each exemplifies a problem or a process as the United States defined and codified its politics toward Indians. The importance of the Lone Wolf case of 1903 …
Women Who Kill Men
California Courts, Gender, and the Press
Av Gordon Morris Bakken, Brenda Farrington
Inbunden, 2009
471 kr
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The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were a revolutionary period in the lives of women, and the shifting perceptions of women and their role in society were equally apparent in the courtroom. Women Who Kill Men examines eighteen sensational cases of women on trial for murder from 1870 …
Called to Justice
The Life of a Federal Trial Judge
Inbunden, 2012
439 kr
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Early in his judicial career, U.S. District Judge Warren K. Urbom was assigned a yearlong string of criminal trials arising from a seventy-one-day armed standoff between the American Indian Movement and federal law enforcement at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. In Called to Justice Urbom provides the …
Sunflower Justice
A New History of the Kansas Supreme Court
Av R. Alton Lee
Inbunden, 2014
756 kr
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Until recently, American legal historiography focused almost solely on national government. Although much of Kansas law reflects U.S. law, the state court's arbitrary powers over labor-management conflicts, yellow dog contracts, civil rights, gender issues, and domestic relations set precedents …
