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Family Matters - Queer Households And The Half-Century Struggle For Legal Recognition

by Marie-Amelie (Wake Forest University School Of Law) George

~~33,80€~~ 30,42€ 10% OFF

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 Family Matters uncovers the decades of advocacy which reshaped same-sex sexuality in American law and society. It will speak to readers interested in queer rights, social movement advocacy, and legal studies, while further contributing to current discourse and ongoing battles over LGBTQ+ rights today.
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Reluctant Abolitionists - Britain And The End Of The Colonial Death Penalty

by James M. (University Of Leicester) Campbell

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 This book presents the first history of the death penalty under British colonial rule in the late twentieth century. Based on evidence from more than 30 colonies, it will appeal to historians, criminologists and legal scholars interested in abolition, crime and punishment, race, decolonisation and the legacies of empire.
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The Judgment Of The Provinces - The Roman Empire And The Origins Of Law And Society

by Ari Z. (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee) Bryen

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 This book offers a previously unknown history of legal and political contest in the Roman world, showing how law transformed from an everyday practice to a tool of governance. It will interest historians, legal scholars, and readers of classics, legal history, religion, and the history of empire.
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Monitoring American Federalism - The History Of State Legislative Resistance

by Christian G. (University Of New Mexico School Of Law) Fritz

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 Monitoring American Federalism examines the use of interposition as a constitutional tool to monitor the federal government and organize state resistance to perceived unconstitutional federal acts. This book is a much-needed addition to the study of American constitutional law and legal history.
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Reluctant Abolitionists - Britain And The End Of The Colonial Death Penalty

by James M. (University Of Leicester) Campbell

~~43,26€~~ 38,93€ 10% OFF

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 This book presents the first history of the death penalty under British colonial rule in the late twentieth century. Based on evidence from more than 30 colonies, it will appeal to historians, criminologists and legal scholars interested in abolition, crime and punishment, race, decolonisation and the legacies of empire.
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Domestic Secrets - Women And Property In Sweden, 1600-1857

by Maria Agren

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 Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, women's role in the Swedish economy was renegotiated and reconceptualised. Maria Agren chronicles changes in married women's property rights, revealing the story of Swedish women's property as not just a simple narrative of the erosion of legal rights, but a more complex tale of unintended consequences.
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Execution, State And Society In England, 1660â€“1900

by Simon (University Of Victoria, British Columbia) Devereaux

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 This book charts the history of execution laws and practices in the era of the 'Bloody Code' and their extraordinary transformation by 1900. Innovative and comprehensive, this work will find an audience with scholars interested in the history of crime and punishment in England.
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English Law In The Age Of The Black Death, 1348-1381 - A Transformation Of Governance And Law

by Robert C. Palmer

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 Shows how the Black Death triggered massive changes in both governance and law in fourteenth-century England, establishing the mechanisms by which the law adapted to social needs for centuries thereafter. Robert Palmer's book, based on all of the available legal records, establishes a genuinely new interpretation and chronology of these important legal changes.
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Faithful Magistrates And Republican Lawyers - Creators Of Virginia Legal Culture, 1680-1810

by A. G. Roeber

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 UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
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Before Eminent Domain - Toward A History Of Expropriation Of Land For The Common Good

by Susan Reynolds

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 In this concise history of expropriation of land for the common good in Europe and North America from medieval times to 1800, Susan Reynolds contextualizes the history of an important legal doctrine regarding the relationship between government and the institution of private property. Before Eminent Domain concentrates on western Europe and the English colonies in America.
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Underdevelopment And The Development Of Law - Corporations And Corporation Law In Nineteenth-Century Colombia

by Robert C. Means

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 Means provides the first major study of both the historical development of private law in a Latin American country and the shifting role of business corporations or share companies in Latin American development. He shows that Colombia’s corporate law provisions for commercial codes held only a tenuous relationship to reality and that, even today, Colombia’s commercial development continues to be affected by a paucity of legal scholars, case reports, and legal journals.
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Domestic Secrets - Women And Property In Sweden, 1600-1857

by Maria Agren

39,74€ + 10% CARD

 Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, women's role in the Swedish economy was renegotiated and reconceptualised. Maria Agren chronicles changes in married women's property rights, revealing the story of Swedish women's property as not just a simple narrative of the erosion of legal rights, but a more complex tale of unintended consequences.
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Southern Slavery And The Law, 1619-1860

by Thomas D. Morris

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 A history of the relationship between American slavery and the law from colonial times to the Civil War. It shows that racial slavery came to the English colonies as an institution without strict legal definitions, and Southern lawmakers struggled to reconcile a social order based on slavery.
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Beyond The Prison Gates - Punishment And Welfare In Germany, 1850-1933

by Warren Rosenblum

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 Beyond the Prison Gates: Punishment and Welfare in Germany, 1850-1933
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Inception Of Modern Professional Education - C. C. Langdell, 1826-1906

by Bruce A. Kimball

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 Inception of Modern Professional Education: C. C. Langdell, 1826-1906
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Catalonia'S Advocates - Lawyers, Society, And Politics In Barcelona, 1759-1900

by Stephen Jacobson

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 Offering a window into the history of the modern legal profession in Western Europe, Stephen Jacobson presents a history of lawyers in the most industrialized city on the Mediterranean. Beginning with the resurrection of a decadent bar during the Enlightenment, Jacobson traces the historical evolution of lawyers throughout the long nineteenth century.
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Slavery On Trial - Law, Abolitionism, And Print Culture

by Jeannine Marie Delombard

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 Examines how debates over slavery in the three decades before the Civil War employed legal language to ""try"" the case for slavery in the court of public opinion via popular print media. This title argues that American literature of the era cannot be fully understood without an appreciation for the slavery debate in the courts and in print.
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Juries And The Transformation Of Criminal Justice In France In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries

by James M. Donovan

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 Takes a comprehensive approach to the history of the jury in modern France by investigating the legal, political, sociocultural, and intellectual aspects of jury trial from the Revolution to the twentieth century. James Donovan demonstrates that these juries, through their decisions, helped shape reform of the nation's criminal justice system.
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Heart Versus Head - Judge-Made Law In Nineteenth-Century America

by Peter Karsten

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 Challenging traditional accounts of the development of American private law, Peter Karsten offers an important new perspective on the making of the rules of common law and equity in nineteenth-century courts. The central story of that era, he finds, was a struggle between a jurisprudence of the head and a jurisprudence of the heart.
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Custom, Kinship, And Gifts To Saints - The Laudatio Parentum In Western France, 1050-1150

by Stephen D. White

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 UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
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Invention Of Free Labor - The Employment Relation In English And American Law And Culture, 1350-1870

by Robert J. Steinfeld

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 Examining the emergence of the modern conception of free labour - labour that could not be legally compelled, even though voluntarily agreed upon - Steinfeld explains how English law dominated the early American colonies, making violation of al labour agreements punishable by imprisonment.
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Transborder Fugitives, Extradition, And Political Crimes In Modern China

by Jenny Huangfu (Skidmore College, New York) Day

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 This book examines how the concept of political crime evolved in modern China, not only from a domestic legal point of view, but as a transborder legal and diplomatic process open to interpretation and maneuvering by both state authorities and the broader transborder population.
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Court, Credit, And Capital - Amsterdam'S Insolvency Legislation In The Dutch Golden Age

by Maurits (Tilburg University) Den Hollander

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 This book explains how important innovations in insolvency legislation contributed to seventeenth-century Amsterdam's economic boom. It is for students and scholars interested in the legal history of the Dutch Golden Age, as well as social and economic history.
The Nation At Sea - The Federal Courts And American Sovereignty, 1789â€“1825

by Kevin (Georgetown University, Washington Dc) Arlyck

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 The Nation at Sea reveals a new story about the nation's founding, in which the federal courts played a central role in transforming the United States from infant republic to world power. It will interest students of early American history, legal history, and the history of foreign relations.
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