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Bonds Of Empire - The English Origins Of Slave Law In South Carolina And British Plantation America, 1660â€“1783

by Lee B. (Clemson University, South Carolina) Wilson

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 Bonds of Empire reveals how English law facilitated the expansion of slavery in British America. Moving beyond an examination of criminal law, the book suggests that plantation slavery and the laws that governed it were not beyond the pale of English imperial legal history.
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'To Save The People From Themselves' - The Emergence Of American Judicial Review And The Transformation Of Constitutions

by Robert J. (State University Of New York, Buffalo) Steinfeld

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 In this expansive history, Steinfeld develops a thorough, systematic account describing how American judicial review was brought into being during the 1780s. This book will be an indispensable resource to those interested in constitutional history, as well as to legal scholars more generally.
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The Turn To Process - American Legal, Political, And Economic Thought, 1870â€“1970

by Kunal M. (University Of Miami School Of Law) Parker

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 The Turn to Process explores how American conceptions of law, democracy, and markets changed between 1870 and 1970 from being oriented around truths, ends, and foundations to being oriented around methods, processes, and techniques. A fascinating work for those interested in US intellectual history and modernism.
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The Turn To Process - American Legal, Political, And Economic Thought, 1870â€“1970

by Kunal M. (University Of Miami School Of Law) Parker

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 The Turn to Process explores how American conceptions of law, democracy, and markets changed between 1870 and 1970 from being oriented around truths, ends, and foundations to being oriented around methods, processes, and techniques. A fascinating work for those interested in US intellectual history and modernism.
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Slavery And Sacred Texts - The Bible, The Constitution, And Historical Consciousness In Antebellum America

by Jordan T. (Brigham Young University, Utah) Watkins

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 Using the debate over American slavery as a case study, Jordan T. Watkins analyzes the development of historical consciousness in antebellum America, showing how Americans' appeal to the nations' sacred and religious texts - the Bible and the Constitution - gave rise to a growing sense of historical distance.
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The Deviant Prison - Philadelphia'S Eastern State Penitentiary And The Origins Of America'S Modern Penal System, 1829â€“1913

by Ashley T. (University Of Hawaii, Manoa) Rubin

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 Using Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary as a case study,Â The Deviant Prison supplements the dominant narrative by looking at what an atypical prison tells us about prison reform more generally, bringing to light the challenges of nineteenth-century prison administration that helped embed our prison system as we know it today.
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Thomas Jefferson, Legal History, And The Art Of Recollection

by Matthew (Hobart And William Smith Colleges, New York) Crow

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 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.
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Conjugal Misconduct - Defying Marriage Law In The Twentieth-Century United States

by William (University Of Tennessee, Chattanooga) Kuby

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 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.
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The Jurisprudence Of Style - A Structuralist History Of American Pragmatism And Liberal Legal Thought

by Justin (University Of Colorado Boulder) Desautels-Stein

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 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.
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The Foundations Of The Modern Philippine State - Imperial Rule And The American Constitutional Tradition In The Philippine Islands, 1898â€“1935

by Leia Castaneda Anastacio

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 Examining American colonial constitutionalism, this book yields insights for legal historians, comparativists, post-colonial scholars, and Southeast Asia specialists. Its focus on the use of American political models in Philippine colonial state-building and development will resonate with law and development scholars and political scientists specializing in American political development.
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Owning Ideas - The Intellectual Origins Of American Intellectual Property, 1790â€“1909

by Oren (University Of Texas, Austin) Bracha

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 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.
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Injury Impoverished - Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, And Law In The Progressive Era

by Nate (Drake University, Iowa) Holdren

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 Combining archival research, critical theory, and gender- and disability-analysis, Nate Holdren argues that Progressive Era reform to employee injury law created new employment discrimination against disabled people and a new injury culture that treated employees and their injuries instrumentally.
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From Slave Abuse To Hate Crime - The Criminalization Of Racial Violence In American History

by Ely (University Of Haifa, Israel) Aaronson

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 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.
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The Law Of The Whale Hunt - Dispute Resolution, Property Law, And American Whalers, 1780â€“1880

by Robert (Marshall University, West Virginia) Deal

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 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.
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The Forgotten Emancipator - James Mitchell Ashley And The Ideological Origins Of Reconstruction

by Rebecca E. Zietlow

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 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.
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'To Save The People From Themselves' - The Emergence Of American Judicial Review And The Transformation Of Constitutions

by Robert J. Steinfeld

31,80€ + 10% CARD

 In this expansive history, Steinfeld develops a thorough, systematic account describing how American judicial review was brought into being during the 1780s. This book will be an indispensable resource to those interested in constitutional history, as well as to legal scholars more generally.
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Bonds Of Empire - The English Origins Of Slave Law In South Carolina And British Plantation America, 1660-1783

by Lee B. Wilson

31,80€ + 10% CARD

 Bonds of Empire reveals how English law facilitated the expansion of slavery in British America. Moving beyond an examination of criminal law, the book suggests that plantation slavery and the laws that governed it were not beyond the pale of English imperial legal history.
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Slavery And Sacred Texts - The Bible, The Constitution, And Historical Consciousness In Antebellum America

by Jordan T. Watkins

33,13€ + 10% CARD

 Using the debate over American slavery as a case study, Jordan T. Watkins analyzes the development of historical consciousness in antebellum America, showing how Americans' appeal to the nations' sacred and religious texts - the Bible and the Constitution - gave rise to a growing sense of historical distance.
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Deviant Prison - Philadelphia''S Eastern State Penitentiary And The Origins Of America''S Modern Penal System, 1829-1913

by Ashley T. Rubin

33,13€ + 10% CARD

 Using Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary as a case study,Â The Deviant Prison supplements the dominant narrative by looking at what an atypical prison tells us about prison reform more generally, bringing to light the challenges of nineteenth-century prison administration that helped embed our prison system as we know it today.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes - A Willing Servant To An Unknown God

by Catharine Pierce (Boston College, Massachusetts) Wells

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 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.
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The Constitutional Origins Of The American Civil War

by Michael F. Conlin

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 In an incisive analysis of over two dozen clauses as well as several 'unwritten' rules and practices, The Constitutional Origins of the American Civil War shows how the conflictingÂ constitutional interpretations of ordinary and elite Americans aggravated the sectional conflict over slavery to the point of civil war.
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Injury Impoverished - Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, And Law In The Progressive Era

by Nate Holdren

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 Combining archival research, critical theory, and gender- and disability-analysis, Nate Holdren argues that Progressive Era reform to employee injury law created new employment discrimination against disabled people and a new injury culture that treated employees and their injuries instrumentally.
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The Deviant Prison - Philadelphia'S Eastern State Penitentiary And The Origins Of America'S Modern Penal System, 1829â€“1913

by Ashley T. (University Of Hawaii, Manoa) Rubin

62,19€ + 10% CARD

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 Using Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary as a case study,Â The Deviant Prison supplements the dominant narrative by looking at what an atypical prison tells us about prison reform more generally, bringing to light the challenges of nineteenth-century prison administration that helped embed our prison system as we know it today.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes - A Willing Servant To An Unknown God

by Catharine Pierce Wells

45,05€ + 10% CARD

 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.
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