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  • af James D. (Northern Illinois University) Schmidt
    339,95 - 838,95 kr.

    This book challenges existing understandings of child labor by tracing how law altered the meanings of work for young people in the United States between the Revolution and the Great Depression, finding the origins of the shifts in litigations that occurred in the wake of industrial accidents incurred by young workers.

  • - A Willing Servant to an Unknown God
    af Massachusetts) Wells & Catharine Pierce (Boston College
    418,95 - 1.098,95 kr.

    Reassessing one of the most influential figures in American law, Wells examines all aspects of Holmes's life to provide a new understanding of his multifaceted personality. This analysis of the Supreme Court Justice will appeal to legal scholars, historians, philosophers, and general readers interested in biography and American history.

  • - Defying Marriage Law in the Twentieth-Century United States
    af William (University of Tennessee & Chattanooga) Kuby
    425,95 - 640,95 kr.

    Examines the experiences of couples in controversial unions and the legal and cultural backlash against contested marital arrangements in twentieth-century America. Will appeal to readers studying marriage law, gender, sexuality, class, and race in the US, and those seeking historical insight into the recent debates over the definition of marriage.

  • - A Structuralist History of American Pragmatism and Liberal Legal Thought
    af Justin (University of Colorado Boulder) Desautels-Stein
    426,95 - 548,95 kr.

    Justin Desautels-Stein focuses on the development of pragmatic liberalism, between 1870 and the present. Using property law, constitutional law, and antitrust law as case studies, he places the intellectual history of liberalism into a contemporary legal context.

  • - Law and Professionalization in American Legal Culture
    af Angela (University of Toronto) Fernandez
    476,95 - 1.355,95 kr.

    Offers new understandings of the famous foxhunting case, Pierson v. Post, and its role in legal education and legal professionalization. This book is meant for legal historians, lawyers, and law professors and students.

  • - James Mitchell Ashley and the Ideological Origins of Reconstruction
    af Rebecca E. Zietlow
    417,95 - 537,95 kr.

    Zietlow uses the life of James Mitchell Ashley as a unique lens through which to explore the ideological origins of Reconstruction, the political antislavery movement, and the constitutional changes wrought in this era. For scholars of nineteenth-century history, as well as the history of American slavery, abolition, and emancipation.

  • af New York) Crow & Matthew (Hobart and William Smith Colleges
    427,95 - 639,95 kr.

    Thomas Jefferson, Legal History, and the Art of Recollection offers an original account of the legal and political thought of Thomas Jefferson and the reception of narratives of empire and constitutional transformation during the era of the American Revolution. This book uniquely places Jefferson's own attention to history in conversation with modern thought.

  • - The Intellectual Origins of American Intellectual Property, 1790-1909
    af Austin) Bracha & Oren (University of Texas
    426,95 - 642,95 kr.

    Owning Ideas explores the history of the emergence of intellectual property in the United States during the nineteenth century, examining the fields of both patent and copyright. It will appeal to readers interested in the concept of ideas as private property, and how it holds a dominant position in modern economic and cultural life.

  • - Slavery and Legal Culture in the American Confluence, 1787-1857
    af Anne (University of Mississippi) Twitty
    343,95 - 597,95 kr.

    Appealing to legal historians and scholars, this antebellum history uses original legal suits to analyse the understanding, use, and adaptation of formal law by slave holders and slaves within the American Confluence, an area of liminal boundaries where the Ohio, Mississippi, and Missouri Rivers converge.

  • - Dispute Resolution, Property Law, and American Whalers, 1780-1880
    af West Virginia) Deal & Robert (Marshall University
    414,95 - 1.131,95 kr.

    The Law of the Whale Hunt provides an innovative examination of how property law was created in the absence of formal legal institutions regulating American whaling. Robert Deal tells an exciting story of how American whalers resolved complex disputes over whales instead of resorting to the courts.

  • - Citizenship, Suffrage, and Public Power in the New Northwest, 1879-1912
    af Sandra F. (Wayne State University) VanBurkleo
    474,95 - 1.294,95 kr.

    Gender Remade explores the passage from territory to state in the Pacific Northwest, especially in Washington, showing that jury duty was as important as the right to vote in late nineteenth-century campaigns for constitutional equality and offers ways to remedy the neglect of state and territorial studies among constitutional historians.

  • - The Criminalization of Racial Violence in American History
    af Israel) Aaronson & Ely (University of Haifa
    400,95 - 1.074,95 kr.

    The first book to develop an in-depth analysis of how legal and political ideas concerning the criminalization of racial violence have evolved from slavery to the present, and to offer new historical and theoretical perspective for analyzing limits of current attempts to use criminal legislation as a weapon against racism.

  • - Race, Class, Law, and the Collapse of Postwar Liberalism
    af Reuel E. Schiller
    362,95 - 947,95 kr.

    Forging Rivals tells the story of the rise and fall of postwar liberalism, vividly recounting the attempts of working people, labor lawyers, and civil rights litigators to create a legal system that promoted both economic opportunity and racial egalitarianism.

  • - American Legal Thought and the Transatlantic Turn to History
    af Austin) Rabban & David M. (University of Texas
    478,95 - 1.025,95 kr.

    This is a study of the central role of history in late nineteenth-century American legal thought.

  • - Legal Thought before Modernism
    af Kunal M. Parker
    382,95 - 1.075,95 kr.

    This book argues for a change in our understanding of the relationships among law, politics and history. Since the turn of the nineteenth century, a certain anti-foundational conception of history has served to undermine law's foundations, such that we tend to think of law as nothing other than a species of politics. Thus viewed, the activity of unelected, common law judges appears to be an encroachment on the space of democracy. However, Kunal M. Parker shows that the world of the nineteenth century looked rather different. Democracy was itself constrained by a sense that history possessed a logic, meaning and direction that democracy could not contravene. In such a world, far from law being seen in opposition to democracy, it was possible to argue that law - specifically, the common law - did a better job than democracy of guiding America along history's path.

  • - The Limits of Political Change
    af Stuart (University of Oregon) Chinn
    475,95 - 797,95 kr.

    This book examines a pattern of conservative resurgence following several eras of reform in American history by pointing to the phenomenon of 'recalibration'. By highlighting recalibration as a regular companion to reform, the book ultimately sheds light on the barriers to, and possibilities for, sweeping change in American politics.

  • - Popular Politics and Criminal Justice in Revolutionary America
    af Professor Steven Wilf
    284,95 - 1.007,95 kr.

    Law's Imagined Republic shows how the American Revolution was marked by the rapid proliferation of law talk across the colonies. Drawing on a wealth of material from criminal cases, Steven Wilf reconstructs the intertextual ways Americans from the 1760s through the 1790s read law.

  • - Protest, Politics, and the Making of the American Penal State, 1776-1941
    af Rebecca M. McLennan
    359,95 - 1.072,95 kr.

    America's prison-based system of punishment has not always enjoyed the widespread political and moral legitimacy it has today. In this groundbreaking reinterpretation of penal history, Rebecca McLennan covers the periods of deep instability, popular protest, and political crisis that characterized early American prisons. She details the debates surrounding prison reform, including the limits of state power, the influence of market forces, the role of unfree labor, and the 'just deserts' of wrongdoers. McLennan also explores the system that existed between the War of 1812 and the Civil War, where private companies relied on prisoners for labor. Finally, she discusses the rehabilitation model that has primarily characterized the penal system in the twentieth century. Unearthing fresh evidence from prison and state archives, McLennan shows how, in each of three distinct periods of crisis, widespread dissent culminated in the dismantling of old systems of imprisonment.

  • - The Battle over Northern School Segregation, 1865-1954
    af Virginia) Douglas & Davison (College of William and Mary
    361,95 - 915,95 kr.

    This history of efforts to desegregate northern schools during the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century explores two dominant themes. This book examines why so many northern communities did engage in school segregation (in violation of state laws) and how northern blacks challenged this illegal activity.

  • - The d'Hauteville Case and Legal Experience in Antebellum America
    af Michael (Indiana University) Grossberg
    404,95 - 1.220,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900-1940
    af New York) Cohen & Andrew Wender (Syracuse University
    410,95 - 1.282,95 kr.

    This book explains how the new business rhetoric of the 1920s, especially the term 'racketeering', prompted Americans to conflate organised crime and organised labour. The struggle between craftsmen, corporations and reformers shaped American law, as tradesmen helped create new anti-racketeering laws and New Deal industrial policies during the 1930s.

  • af Buffalo) Steinfeld & Robert J. (State University of New York
    536,95 - 1.161,95 kr.

    This book presents a fundamental reassessment of wage labor in the nineteenth century, focusing on the use of sanctions to enforce wage labor agreements. Professor Steinfeld argues that wage workers were often bound to their employment by enforceable labor agreements, which employers used to manage labor costs and supply.

  • - Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865-1920
    af Barbara Young (University of Minnesota) Welke
    459,95 - 1.282,95 kr.

    Through courtroom dramas from 1865 to 1920, Barbara Welke offers a dramatic reconsideration of the critical role railroads, and streetcars, played in transforming the conditions of individual liberty at the dawn of the twentieth century, focusing on the law of accidental injury, nervous shock, and racial segregation in public transit.

  • - Socializing Justice in Progressive Era Chicago
    af Massachusetts) Willrich & Michael (Brandeis University
    366,95 - 1.282,95 kr.

    In this 2003 book, Willrich uncovers the contested origins and paradoxical consequences of two protean concepts in the cosmopolitan cities of industrial America at the turn of the twentieth century: the modern ideas of social responsibility for crime and the belief that the law should aim for social, not merely individual, justice.

  • - The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment
    af Rhode Island) Vorenberg & Michael (Brown University
    284,95 - 1.050,95 kr.

    Focusing on the making and meaning of the Thirteenth Amendment, Final Freedom looks at the struggle among legal thinkers, politicians, and ordinary Americans to find a way to abolish slavery that would overcome the inadequacies of the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.

  • - An Economic Analysis of the Common Law of Southern Slavery
    af Minnesota) Wahl & Jenny Bourne (St Olaf College
    404,95 - 1.724,95 kr.

    Were slaves property or human beings under law? Southern judges designed laws that protected property rights and helped slavery remain economically viable, the foundation of laws applicable to free people. This 1998 book provides a rigorous, compelling economic analysis of the common law of Southern slavery, inspecting thousands of legal disputes.

  • af Tony Allan Freyer
    435,95 - 829,95 kr.

    This book describes how the international spread of antitrust suggested the historical process shaping global capitalism.

  • af Austin) Rabban & David M. (University of Texas
    416,95 - 1.208,95 kr.

    Most American historians and legal scholars incorrectly assume that controversies and litigation about free speech began abruptly during World War I; yet important free speech controversies and legal cases preceded the Espionage Act of 1917. World War I obscured prior libertarian defenses of free speech.

  • - Christianity, Public Education, and the Federal Courts in the Reagan Era
    af Robert Daniel Rubin
    633,95 kr.

    Focusing on a conflict in Alabama during the 1980s, Robert Daniel Rubin considers how conservative evangelicals forged a political identity. To protect Christianity's role in public education, they both resisted and solicited the federal courts. This book will be of interest to historians, political scientists, and constitutional lawyers.

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