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Duncker & Humblot GmbH Rechtswissenschaften an der Saar
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Burgerliches Recht Im Nachburgerlichen Zeitalter
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£75.65
Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Plurale Rechtsverstandnisse?: Begriff Und Grundlagen Des Rechts in Den Juristischen Teildisziplinen Im Spaten 19. Und Fruhen 20. Jahrhundert (Moderne Regulierungsregime. Hrsg. Von Peter Collin. Band 6)
£65.26
Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Kirche in Der Krise Und Die Antworten Des Rechts (500-1500)
£101.15
Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Privilegien ALS Sonderrecht in Europaischen
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£128.00
Brill U Schoningh Calvin's and Neo-Calvinist Legal Theory in
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£81.75
Brill U Schoningh Recht Und Gerechtigkeit:
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£126.65
V&r Academic Kristallhart Gegenuber Allen Feinden
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£36.00
Herder Verlag GmbH Römisches Recht
£25.50
Herder Verlag GmbH Recht macht Landschaft
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£38.25
Nomos Verlags GmbH Juristinnen Lexikon Zu Leben Und Werk
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£84.15
Gebruder Mann Verlag Die Normierung Des Wahnsinns: Unterbringungsrecht
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£59.00
Schnell & Steiner GmbH Städtische Rechtskulturen in der Vormoderne
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£35.96
Thorbecke Jan Verlag Unfreiheit und Recht
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£53.75
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Wege Zur Rechtsgeschichte: Die Rechtshistorische
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£35.10
Universitätsverlag Winter Ehre wem Ehre gebührt
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£32.40
V&R unipress Der junge Friedrich Carl von Savigny im Spiegel
Book SynopsisSavigny neu entdeckt: Bausteine zur Biografie des großen Juristen
£38.69
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Geschichte Des Strafrechts
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£24.60
Brill Justifying Utopia
£198.54
Oxford University Press Proceedings of the British Academy Volume 166 Biographical Memoirs of Fellows IX
Book SynopsisSixteen obituaries of recently deceased Fellows of the British Academy: Brian Barry; Michael Baxandall; Robert Black; Henry Chadwick; Nicolas Coldstream; Howard Colvin; Mary Douglas; Robin Du Boulay; Alan Everitt; Robert Latham; Geoffrey Lewis; Laurence Picken; Thomas Puttfarken; Karen Spärck Jones; Christopher Stead; Denis Twitchett.Table of ContentsBrian Michael Barry 1936-2009 ; Michael David Kighley Baxandall 1933-2008 ; Robert Denis Collison Black 1922-2008 ; Henry Chadwick 1920-2008 ; John Nicolas Coldstream 1927-2008 ; Howard Montagu Colvin 1919-2007 ; Margaret Mary Douglas 1921-2007 ; Francis Robin Houssemayne Du Boulay 1920-2008 ; Alan Milner Everitt 1926-2008 ; Robert Clifford Latham 1912-1995 ; Geoffrey Lewis Lewis 1920-2008 ; Laurence Ernest Rowland Picken 1909-2007 ; Thomas Monrad Puttfarken 1943-2006 ; Karen Ida Boalth Sparck Jones 1935-2007 ; George Christopher Stead 1913-2008 ; Denis Crispin Twitchett 1925-2006
£71.25
The University of Chicago Press Rehabilitating Lochner
Book SynopsisA reevaluation of an infamous Supreme Court decision that provides a compelling survey of the history and background of Lochner v New York. It argues not only that the court acted reasonably in Lochner, but that Lochner and like-minded cases have been widely misunderstood and unfairly maligned ever since.Trade Review"As every law student knows, Lochner was a case in which a court packed with business sympathizers stuck it to the little guy in a shameless display of judicial activism. But, like a surprisingly large number of things everyone knows, this conventional wisdom is almost entirely wrong, and David E. Bernstein's new book, Rehabilitating Lochner, makes clear just how wrong it is - and how and why the Lochner narrative became established in the legal academy.... The false narrative of Lochner has controlled the past for decades but Bernstein's clear and incisive work may wrest that control away and move us back to the truth." (Glenn Reynolds, Commentary) "David E. Bernstein attempts the grand task of 'correcting decades of erroneous accounts' and succeeds with aplomb, and notable timeliness. The story of how Joseph Lochner fought legislators and unions to bake his goods in freedom goes especially well with tea." (National Review) "David E. Bernstein takes issue with conventional wisdom and argues that if one understands the larger context and broader stream of historical development, Lochner was a 'good law' at the time and, despite the fact that it was overruled, its core principles remain good constitutional law today. This is a delightful and informative book that deserves a broad audience." (Choice)"
£20.00
The University of Chicago Press Rehabilitating Lochner
Book SynopsisProvides a survey of the history and background of Lochner versus New York. This title argues that the decision was well grounded in precedent - and that modern constitutional jurisprudence owes at least as much to the limited-government ideas of Lochner proponents as to the more expansive vision of its Progressive opponents.Trade Review"An exhilarating book full of interesting new perspectives. Rehabilitating Lochner will change the way people think about the transition from the late nineteenth century to the modern New Deal and Civil Rights regime. It does what good revisionist history should do: see what is familiar in new ways." (Jack M. Balkin, Yale Law School)"
£60.80
The University of Chicago Press A Power to Do Justice
Book SynopsisReassessing the relationship between English literature and law from More to Shakespeare and Webster, the author shows that where literary texts attend to jurisdiction, they dramatize how boundaries and limits are the very precondition of law's power.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press The Cloaking of Power Montesquieu Blackstone and
Book SynopsisHow did the US judiciary become so powerful-powerful enough that state and federal judges once vied to decide a presidential election? What does this prominence mean for the law, constitutionalism, and liberal democracy? This title deals with these questions.Trade Review"With The Cloaking of Power, Paul O. Carrese has established himself as a first-rate scholar working at the intersection of political philosophy and judicial politics.... This book should be of interest even to those who disagree with his prescriptions for contemporary American judicial power." (Claremont Review of Books)"
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Toward a Just World The Critical Years in the
Book SynopsisA little over a century ago, there was no such thing as international justice, and until recently, the idea of permanent international courts and formal war crimes tribunals would have been almost unthinkable. This title tells the story of the long struggle to craft the concept of international justice that we have today.Trade Review"In a tour de force, Dorothy V. Jones exhumes from musty annals totally forgotten figures in the quest for international justice." (World Policy Journal)"
£25.00
The University of Chicago Press Wasting a Crisis
Book SynopsisOffers persuasive research to show that the almost universally accepted narrative of market failure - broadly similar across financial crises - is formulated by political actors hoping to deflect blame from prior policy errors. It shows that lax regulation was not a substantial cause of the financial problems of the Great Depression.Trade Review"Mahoney casts the foundational securities laws of the New Deal in a completely different light, going behind the assertions of contemporary commentators and providing compelling evidence that we ought to question their accuracy. This is a truly important book and a timely addition of a powerful contrarian view to today's policy discussions that tend to have a one-sided focus on the need for expanded regulation without regard to whether there is any supporting evidence for proposed policies." (Roberta Romano, Yale Law School)
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press A Prelude to the Welfare State The Origins of
Book SynopsisPresents a reappraisal of the causes and consequences of a movement that ultimately transformed the nature of social insurance and the American workplace. This book argues that workers' compensation, rather than being an early progressive victory, succeeded because all relevant parties - labor, lawyers, and legislators - benefited from the ruling.Trade Review"This is surely the very best book ever written about the passage of workers' compensation, an instant 'classic' in historical political economy." - Robert A. Margo, Southern Economic Journal "Substantial, well-written, and compelling.... The end result is an in-depth analysis of how workers' compensation was created and initially implemented in the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century." - Christopher R. Larrison, Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare"
£30.00
University of Chicago Press The American Supreme Court Sixth Edition
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The University of Chicago Press The Hollow Hope
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The third edition is a major revision, updating, revising, and expanding the material on civil rights, abortion, women’s rights, and marriage equality. In particular, it analyzes the resegregation of public schools, showing how the conditions necessary for courts to produce progressive change waned, limiting judicial efficacy." * Law & Courts Newsletter *Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Preface to the Third Edition Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition Introduction 1: The Dynamic and the Constrained Court Part 1: Civil Rights 2: Bound for Glory? Brown and the Civil Rights Revolution 3: Constraints, Conditions, and the Courts 4: Planting the Seeds of Progress? 5: The Current of History Part 2: Abortion and Women’s Rights 6: Transforming Women’s Lives? The Courts and Abortion 7: Liberating Women? The Courts and Women’s Rights 8: The Court as Catalyst? 9: The Tide of History Part 3: Marriage Equality 10: You’ve Got That Loving Feeling? The Litigation Campaign for Marriage Equality 11: What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been: Mobilization, Countermobilization, and State Action 12: The Times They Are a-Changing 13: Conclusion: The Fly-Paper Court Epilogue Appendixes 1. Black Children in Elementary and Secondary School with Whites, State-by-State Breakdown, 1954–1972 2. Blacks at Predominantly White Public Colleges and Universities: State-by-State Breakdown 3. Black Voter Registration in the Southern States, Pre– and Post–Voting Rights Act, State-by-State Breakdown 4. Data Correction for Table 2.5 5. Laws and Actions Designed to Preserve Segregation 6. Method for Obtaining Information for Table 4.1 and Figure 4.1 7. Illegal Abortions 8. Method for Obtaining Information for Tables 8.1a, 8.1b, 8.2a, and 8.2b, and for Figures 8.1 and 8.2 9. Make Change, Not Lawsuits 10. Coding Rules and Method for Obtaining Information for Tables 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, and 12.6 Case References References Index
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The University of Chicago Press Free Expression and Democracy in America A
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The University of Chicago Press Wasting a Crisis
Book SynopsisThe recent financial crisis led to sweeping reforms that inspired countless references to the financial reforms of the New Deal. Comparable to the reforms of the New Deal in both scope and scale, the 2,300-page Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 the main regulatory reform package introduced in the United States also shared with New Deal reforms the assumption that the underlying cause of the crisis was misbehavior by securities market participants, exacerbated by lax regulatory oversight. With Wasting a Crisis, Paul G. Mahoney offers persuasive research to show that this now almost universally accepted narrative of market failure broadly similar across financial crises is formulated by political actors hoping to deflect blame from prior policy errors. Drawing on a cache of data, from congressional investigations, litigation, regulatory reports, and filings to stock quotes from the 1920s and '30s, Mahoney moves beyond the received wisdom about the financial reforms of the New Deal, showing that lax regulation was not a substantial cause of the financial problems of the Great Depression. As new regulations were formed around this narrative of market failure, not only were the majority largely ineffective, they were also often counterproductive, consolidating market share in the hands of leading financial firms. An overview of twenty-first-century securities reforms from the same analytic perspective, including Dodd-Frank and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, shows a similar pattern and suggests that they too may offer little benefit to investors and some measurable harm.
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press This Is Not Civil Rights
Book SynopsisSince at least the time of Tocqueville, observers have noted that Americans draw on the language of rights when expressing dissatisfaction with political and social conditions. Drawing on a remarkable cache of Depression-era complaint letters written by ordinary Americans to the Justice Department, the author challenges these common claims.Trade Review"A masterly and potentially path-breaking analysis of American 'rights talk,' a much-maligned but largely misunderstood phenomenon. Using a trove of letters written in 1939 and 1940 by ordinary Americans to the Justice Department's then-new Civil Liberties Unit, George I. Lovell shows that many of the standard claims about American rights talk are wrong; beyond the fervent hope for a rights-regulated society lies a worldly wise realism about rights' limited capacity to bring about real change." (Charles R. Epp, University of Kansas)"
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The University of Chicago Press This Is Not Civil Rights
Book SynopsisSince at least the time of Tocqueville, observers have noted that Americans draw on the language of rights when expressing dissatisfaction with political and social conditions. Drawing on a remarkable cache of Depression-era complaint letters written by ordinary Americans to the Justice Department, the author challenges these common claims.Trade Review"A masterly and potentially path-breaking analysis of American 'rights talk,' a much-maligned but largely misunderstood phenomenon. Using a trove of letters written in 1939 and 1940 by ordinary Americans to the Justice Department's then-new Civil Liberties Unit, George I. Lovell shows that many of the standard claims about American rights talk are wrong; beyond the fervent hope for a rights-regulated society lies a worldly wise realism about rights' limited capacity to bring about real change." (Charles R. Epp, University of Kansas)"
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Islam and the Rule of Justice Image and Reality
Book SynopsisRosen looks at contemporary Islamic law and separate reality from Western stereotypes, showing it to be quite flexible and effective.
£91.00
The University of Chicago Press Confronting Torture Essays on the Ethics
Book SynopsisA collection that explores all the current legal, ethical, and cultural thinking about torture and its effects today.
£91.00
The University of Chicago Press Confronting Torture Essays on the Ethics Legality
Book SynopsisA collection that explores all the current legal, ethical, and cultural thinking about torture and its effects today.
£31.00
The University of Chicago Press Building a Revolutionary State The Legal
Book SynopsisHow does a state function during the collapse of institutions that revolutions bring? Pashman answers that in the case of New York during and after the Revolutionary War, showing how a new state was built on the fly.
£27.85
The University of Chicago Press Courts Jurisdictions and Law in John Milton and
Book SynopsisJohn Milton is widely known as the poet of liberty and freedom. But his commitment to justice has been often overlooked. As Alison A. Chapman shows, Milton's many prose works are saturated in legal ways of thinking, and he also actively shifts between citing Roman, common, and ecclesiastical law to best suit his purpose in any given text. This book provides literary scholars with a working knowledge of the multiple, jostling, real-world legal systems in conflict in seventeenth-century England and brings to light Milton's use of the various legal systems and vocabularies of the timenatural versus positive law, for exampleand the differences between them. Surveying Milton's early pamphlets, divorce tracts, late political tracts, and major prose works in comparison with the writings and cases of some of Milton's contemporariesincluding George Herbert, John Donne, Ben Jonson, and John BunyanChapman reveals the variety and nuance in Milton's juridical toolkit and his subtle use of competing legal traditions in pursuit of justice. Trade Review"Chapman has written an excellent book, a fit companion for her award-winning Legal Epic. Courts, Jurisdictions, and Law is engaging and informative, economically expressed without sacrificing clarity or detail, and everywhere displaying expert knowledge of early modern law and of Milton’s body of work. With her twin studies, Chapman has secured a place at the fore of recent scholarship on early modern literature and law." * Modern Philology *"Alison Chapman’s Courts, Jurisdictions, and Law in John Milton and His Contemporaries. . . represents a crucial addition to not only Milton studies but to seventeenth-century legal studies in England." * Comitatus *“[An] outstanding new monograph… Chapman’s book proves beyond reasonable doubt that legal issues played an enduring part in Milton’s thinking, and gives a detailed sense of how they did so. It is clearly written and well-informed on a complex subject. The book will be valuable to Miltonists, and to scholars working at the intersection of early modern law and literature.” * Review of English Studies *“Chapman’s new book, Courts, Jurisdictions, and Law in John Milton and His Contemporaries, extends her prior examinations and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of how Milton approached the existing patchwork of English legal systems.” * New Rambler Review *"Well suited to an intersectional field of law and literature that places questions of race, gender and religion at its center." * Seventeenth-Century News *“Chapman’s work is both highly original and exceptionally readable, bringing together imaginative engagement with legal language, convincing arguments, and refreshingly forthright responses to other scholars. She presents unfamiliar legal matters in lucid, sometimes witty prose and cautions her readers against importing modern assumptions into early modern English literature. Students and scholars of Milton will benefit enormously from her carefully developed contextualization of Milton’s assumptions regarding jurisprudential fields, specific legal terms, and his own rhetorical practices.” -- Mary Nyquist, University of Toronto“With careful attention to legal language, Chapman pulls at the tensions between libel and defamation, convincingly showing Milton’s continued interest in such questions. These are valuable new readings that explain several apparent tensions, and they show that Milton’s legal orientation can account for many of the most oddly vituperative moments in his prose. This is a very welcome addition to Milton studies.” -- Christopher Warren, Carnegie Mellon University"Chapman considers the multiple, jostling, real-world legal systems in conflict in seventeenth-century England and brings to light the poet John Milton’s use of the various legal systems and vocabularies of the time... Chapman highlights the variety and nuance in Milton’s juridical toolkit and his subtle use of competing legal traditions in pursuit of justice." * Law & Social Inquiry *"[This book] is not only an education in early modern law and in Miltonic rhetoric but also, in its acute exposition of the legalistic, if not authoritarian, bias of the great republican, Puritan, and libertarian, one of the best recent critical studies of Milton." * Milton Quarterly *Table of ContentsA Note on Texts List of Abbreviations Preface: Making Sense of Many Laws Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Defending One’s Good Name: Free Speech in the Early Prose Chapter 3: Monstrous Books: Areopagitica and the Problem of Libel Chapter 4: Civil Law and Equity in the Divorce Tracts Chapter 5: Defending Pro Se Defensio Chapter 6: The Tithes of War: Paying God Back in Paradise Lost Chapter 7: “Justice in Thir Own Hands”: Local Courts in the Late Prose Afterword: Justice in the Columbia Manuscript Acknowledgments Bibliography Index
£87.40
The University of Chicago Press Courts Jurisdictions and Law in John Milton and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Chapman has written an excellent book, a fit companion for her award-winning Legal Epic. Courts, Jurisdictions, and Law is engaging and informative, economically expressed without sacrificing clarity or detail, and everywhere displaying expert knowledge of early modern law and of Milton’s body of work. With her twin studies, Chapman has secured a place at the fore of recent scholarship on early modern literature and law." * Modern Philology *"Alison Chapman’s Courts, Jurisdictions, and Law in John Milton and His Contemporaries. . . represents a crucial addition to not only Milton studies but to seventeenth-century legal studies in England." * Comitatus *“[An] outstanding new monograph… Chapman’s book proves beyond reasonable doubt that legal issues played an enduring part in Milton’s thinking, and gives a detailed sense of how they did so. It is clearly written and well-informed on a complex subject. The book will be valuable to Miltonists, and to scholars working at the intersection of early modern law and literature.” * Review of English Studies *“Chapman’s new book, Courts, Jurisdictions, and Law in John Milton and His Contemporaries, extends her prior examinations and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of how Milton approached the existing patchwork of English legal systems.” * New Rambler Review *"Well suited to an intersectional field of law and literature that places questions of race, gender and religion at its center." * Seventeenth-Century News *“Chapman’s work is both highly original and exceptionally readable, bringing together imaginative engagement with legal language, convincing arguments, and refreshingly forthright responses to other scholars. She presents unfamiliar legal matters in lucid, sometimes witty prose and cautions her readers against importing modern assumptions into early modern English literature. Students and scholars of Milton will benefit enormously from her carefully developed contextualization of Milton’s assumptions regarding jurisprudential fields, specific legal terms, and his own rhetorical practices.” -- Mary Nyquist, University of Toronto“With careful attention to legal language, Chapman pulls at the tensions between libel and defamation, convincingly showing Milton’s continued interest in such questions. These are valuable new readings that explain several apparent tensions, and they show that Milton’s legal orientation can account for many of the most oddly vituperative moments in his prose. This is a very welcome addition to Milton studies.” -- Christopher Warren, Carnegie Mellon University"Chapman considers the multiple, jostling, real-world legal systems in conflict in seventeenth-century England and brings to light the poet John Milton’s use of the various legal systems and vocabularies of the time... Chapman highlights the variety and nuance in Milton’s juridical toolkit and his subtle use of competing legal traditions in pursuit of justice." * Law & Social Inquiry *"[This book] is not only an education in early modern law and in Miltonic rhetoric but also, in its acute exposition of the legalistic, if not authoritarian, bias of the great republican, Puritan, and libertarian, one of the best recent critical studies of Milton." * Milton Quarterly *Table of ContentsA Note on Texts List of Abbreviations Preface: Making Sense of Many Laws Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Defending One’s Good Name: Free Speech in the Early Prose Chapter 3: Monstrous Books: Areopagitica and the Problem of Libel Chapter 4: Civil Law and Equity in the Divorce Tracts Chapter 5: Defending Pro Se Defensio Chapter 6: The Tithes of War: Paying God Back in Paradise Lost Chapter 7: “Justice in Thir Own Hands”: Local Courts in the Late Prose Afterword: Justice in the Columbia Manuscript Acknowledgments Bibliography Index
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Wives Not Slaves Patriarchy and Modernity in the
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Wives not Slaves is a must-read for anyone interested in the interplay between popular culture and law. Readers will appreciate both the narrative power of its case studies and the elegance of its arguments. This powerful book not only deconstructs the feminist analogy of marriage as slavery, it reassesses the notion of expanding equality in the age of revolution. Better yet, it is filled with thought-provoking implications for our own age.” * Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Harvard University *“Sword unsilences the past, recovering the cacophonous voices of all the ordinary wives and husbands who put their domestic unions on trial in the pages of early American newspapers. A keenly argued study of the making and breaking of colonial marriages in the court of public opinion, Wives Not Slaves explains how marital practices developed in dialogue with the elaboration of other species of household dependence even as it eviscerates the false equivalence between divorce and emancipation.” * Richard Bell, University of Maryland *"Sword’s decades of hard work pay off with a clear, intriguing, and articulate discussion of marriage law as it developed in the American colonies during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. . . . Sword has found a creative, intricate, and refreshing way to approach the history of marriage law and colonial life . . . The timely nature of Sword’s publication in the era of #metoo and #blacklivesmatter allows the author to engage in historical conversations, the legacies of which are still felt today. Sword’s work engages with colonial, American, feminist, slave, and legal histories as well as conversations in anthropology, sociology, and government. . . . Through the use of enticing prose, seductive narratives, and provocative peculiarities, Wives Not Slaves will undoubtedly find its place among scholars, students, and citizen historians for years to come." * H-Net *"Highly recommended. . . A beautifully written, strongly argued narrative that will transform how readers think about the evolution of women’s rights in the colonial US. " * Choice *"Sword reconstructs the stories of wives who fled their husbands between the mid-seventeenth and early nineteenth century US, comparing their plight with that of other runaway dependents. She explores the links between local justice, the emerging press, and transatlantic political debates about marriage, slavery, and imperial power." * Law & Social Inquiry *"This excellent, fine-grained study connects legal regimes to patriarchy’s quotidian preservation. . . . [Sword's] detailed analysis historicizes the workings of patriarchy and women’s defiance in ways that feminist theory and other disciplinary perspectives may overlook." * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"Though Sword began researching runaway wives and slaves more than twenty years ago, Wives Not Slaves reads as equally urgent today. As Sword notes, this is in part due to the recent #MeToo movement, which has highlighted the persistence of patriarchal authority. Yet the relevance of Sword’s book is equally a testament to the originality and the incisiveness of her analysis. Wives Not Slaves reshapes our understanding of coverture, legal treatises, and desertion notices, calling attention to reinventions of patriarchy in the eighteenth century and our own time." * William and Mary Quarterly *"Kirsten Sword’s Wives Not Slaves: Patriarchy and Modernity in the Age of Revolutions offers an incisive and compelling argument about how the rise of print, in particular public notices in newspapers, mediated spousal separation and to a certain extent shaped legal discourses surrounding the dissolution of marriage. The book provides ample context for the cases it highlights by tracing the halting and roundabout ways the jurisdictional debate about divorce unfolded in England and in the colonies." * Early American Literature *"The fruit of Sword’s close scrutiny of thousands of elopement and run-away advertisements printed in eighteenth-century newspapers throughout British America regarding absconding wives, and on several occasions, husbands, Wives Not Slaves provides deft analysis of English and American marital law and paints a powerful portrait in which colonial women achieved a precarious agency." * Eighteenth-Century Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: “If I am your Wife, I am not your Slave” The Political Uses of Ancient Patriarchy Divorce, Jurisdiction, and the Location of Law Debt and the Paradox of Masculine Possessory Rights in the Age of Revolutions 1. The Trials of Christopher and Elizabeth Lawson: An Introduction to Post-Reformation Debates about Marriage The Puritan Context of the Lawson Marriage Arguments for Separation and Divorce Weighing the Charges: Credibility, Economic Misconduct, Sexual Crime, Racial Boundaries, and SlanderLaw’s Irresolution 2. Submit or Starve: Manby v. Scott and the Making of a Precedent Dynastic Marriage and Family Politics Divorce in Interregnum EnglandManby v. Scott and the Domestication of Politics Making a Precedent 3. The Runaway Press Runaway Slaves and Servants and the Development of Colonial Labor Systems Wayward Wives, Colonial Law, and a Shift in Practice The Rise of the Press 4. Marriage, Slavery, and Anglo-Imperial Jurisdictional Politics Disorder in the Legal System: Common Law, Equity, and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Colonial Household Conflicts, Local Law, and the Shadow of Imperial Norms in the 1720s Ancient Patriarchy and the Invention of “Possessory Rights” Repercussions of Imperial Intervention in Marriage Law The Rise of Blackstone The Echo Chamber of the 1760s 5. A Matter of Credit: Husbands’ Claims “Lest she should run me in debt”: Credibility and Masculine Vulnerability “Behaved in a very unbecoming manner . . . and has eloped from me”: Implied Sexual Scandal “Some debates that have subsisted between us”: Domestic Violence “Will not be persuaded, either by me or her best friends, to return”: Preempting the Law “To her usual place of abode, and to her duty”: Husbands versus Communities 6. “In Justice to my Character”: Wives’ Replies A Change in Values or a Change in Venue? Patterns over Time and Place Ann Wood’s Advertisement “Endanger my life by dwelling with him”: Ann Wood’s Plea “On the Providence of God”: Prayers and Curses “The few remaining days of my disconsolate life”: Sentimental Dependence Authorship, Agency, and Remedy 7. Wives Not Slaves Liberty versus Loyalty: Marriage as Metaphor “If I am your Wife, I am not your Slave” “The Privilege of my Negroe Wench” “Her service & conjugal comfort . . . which he had a right to have” “We know better than to repeal our Masculine systems” 8. Rethinking the Revolutionary Road to Divorce Divorce and the Jurisdictional and Personal Politics of Revolution Divorce and Emancipation: A Useful False Equivalence Divorce as a Woman’s Remedy: Revolutionary Expectations and the “First Families” of the United States “Down the Stream of Time Unnoticed”: Family Secrets, Family Stories, and Legal Change Epilogue: “The Rigour of the Old Rule” Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Legal EducationManby v. Scott in the Nineteenth Century Acknowledgments Abbreviations and Source Notes Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press Dawn at Mineral King Valley The Sierra Club the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of the most exciting books about U.S. public lands policy ever written." * Vail Daily *"Dawn at Mineral King Valley is a marvelous book. Daniel Selmi's voice is not only that of an authoritative legal scholar, but of an articulate, and forceful, storyteller. The saga of Mineral King as he tells it is an absorbing read and is a major contribution to environmental history in the United States." * National Parks Traveler *"Selmi. . . conducted extensive research and included both the miscalculations and successes of all participants: the Sierra Club, Disney, the Forest Service, the National Park Service, and the Departments of Interior and Agriculture. Because of the author’s meticulous analysis of this pivotal story, this book would be an excellent resource for students of public relations, environmental studies, political science, public administration, law, journalism, and more." * Choice *"Selmi... ably explores changing attitudes toward the environment and one of the chief means Americans now use in disputes." * Harvard Magazine *“Dawn at Mineral King is a fascinating account. . . sprinkled with historical gems and gripping storytelling.” * Sierra Magazine *"Selmi has written an important and timely book on a local environmental conflict that has inspired both theoretical debates and institutional reforms." * Metascience *“Dawn at Mineral King Valley is an entertaining and fast-moving narrative filled with a fascinating collection of environmental stewards, motion picture icons, senior civil servants, fervent lawyers and judges, and legendary politicians. With spectacular background scenery, Selmi tells the story of a single Supreme Court case that affected not just the future of the Mineral King Valley in the California Sierras, but the future of the environment of the entire country.” * Andrea Sheridan Ordin, former US Attorney, Central District of California *“Selmi tells the remarkable story of how, against all odds, one of America’s iconic natural resources was saved from destruction just as the modern-day environmental movement was emerging and entering our legal framework. Focusing on an extraordinary array of characters, he conveys the human drama behind this epic environmental struggle. Lawyers and nonlawyers alike will thoroughly enjoy every twist and turn of this fascinating story.” * former US Senator Tom Udall, US Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa *“The Supreme Court’s 1972 decision in Sierra Club v. Morton is one of the seminal cases in US environmental law, but today few experts in the field know how it came to be. Selmi’s deep research and fluid writing bring to light the colorful characters, the internal battles, and the legal intricacies. We see how the decisions of businesses, politicians, and environmental groups, the strategic choices of lawyers, and the philosophies of the justices shaped the case’s outcome and still influence the law half a century later.” * Michael B. Gerrard, director, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School *“Well documented and researched, Dawn at Mineral King Valley plays out a controversy that is as relevant today as it was at the beginning of environmental consciousness. Selmi is a compelling storyteller, exploring the dynamic history of this critical case while weaving in the role of Walt Disney and his company. He provides not only important insight into competing goals but also a pathway to environmental improvement.” * John C. Cruden, former Assistant Attorney General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, US Department of Justice *Table of ContentsPrincipal Participants Prologue: In the Supreme Court A Ski Development at Mineral King 1. A Resort in the American Alps 2. An Invitation from the Forest Service 3. Dueling Applications 4. A Cabinet Brawl 5. A Recreation and Conservation Plan The New World of the Courts 6. Formulating a Lawsuit 7. A Shocking Injunction 8. The Shutout 9. Standing Front and Center 10. Opening the Courthouse Door The Fate of Mineral King 11. Cracks in the Wall of Support 12. A Park-Barrel Bill Epilogue: The Inflection Point Acknowledgments Notes on Sources and Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Chicago Press Dawn at Mineral King Valley
Book SynopsisThe story behind the historic Mineral King Valley case, which reveals how the Sierra Club battled Disney's ski resort development and launched a new environmental era in America. In our current age of climate changeinduced panic, it's hard to imagine a time when private groups were not actively enforcing environmental protection laws in the courts. It wasn't until 1972, however, that a David and Goliathesque Supreme Court showdown involving the Sierra Club and Disney set a revolutionary legal precedent for the era of environmental activism we live in today. Set against the backdrop of the environmental movement that swept the country in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Dawn at Mineral King Valley tells the surprising story of how the US Forest Service, the Disney company, and the Sierra Club each struggled to adapt to the new, rapidly changing political landscape of environmental consciousness in postwar America. Proposed in 1965 and approved by the federal government in 1969, D
£17.10
The University of Chicago Press The Sympathetic State
Book SynopsisEven as unemployment rates soared during the Great Depression, FDR's relief and social security programs faced attacks in Congress and the courts on the legitimacy of federal aid to the growing population of poor. This book recovers this crucial aspect of American history, tracing the roots of the modern American welfare state.Trade Review"A marvelous, deeply researched history of the largely forgotten role of federal disaster relief in the historical development of the American welfare state. Michele Landis Dauber shows very creatively how the Great Depression came to be understood as a single, monolithic event - as a disaster - that justified new and expansive forms of relief. Political scientists and historians will have to contend with her central argument: that the New Deal was less the product of a 'constitutional revolution' than ordinary lawyering from long-settled precedents." (Michael Willrich, author of Pox: An American History)"
£27.00
McGill-Queen's University Press Disputing New France
Book SynopsisChallenging the traditional narrative of an orderly establishment of law, sovereignty, and authority in the colony, Disputing New France reveals how negotiations and contestations among a range of actors actively shaped empire building, offering readers an intertwined history of French state formation and empire building in New France.Trade Review“Dewar’s book is a compelling and incisive study of early New France and a tremendous contribution to the flourishing field of French colonial scholarship.[…] Disputing New France succeeds wonderfully as a challenge to the odd historiographical wall of disapproval that inevitably faces those who study the history of France’s overseas colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.” H-France
£91.80
McGill-Queen's University Press Disputing New France
Book SynopsisChallenging the traditional narrative of an orderly establishment of law, sovereignty, and authority in the colony, Disputing New France reveals how negotiations and contestations among a range of actors actively shaped empire building, offering readers an intertwined history of French state formation and empire building in New France.Trade Review“Dewar’s book is a compelling and incisive study of early New France and a tremendous contribution to the flourishing field of French colonial scholarship.[…] Disputing New France succeeds wonderfully as a challenge to the odd historiographical wall of disapproval that inevitably faces those who study the history of France’s overseas colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.” H-France
£999.99
McGill-Queen's University Press In the Public Good
Book SynopsisIn the Public Good examines the trajectory of eugenic ideas in Ontario in the early twentieth century, when the eugenics movement gained support for the solutions it offered to social ills of the day. Koester focuses on key legal events that influenced eugenic ideas, showing how the law was used both to promote and deflect eugenic thinking.Trade Review"In the Public Good challenges narrow views of the role of law in Canada's eugenic project by addressing different ways that legal institutions and norms were brought to bear on social problems." Eric H. Reiter, Concordia University and author of Wounded Feelings: Litigating Emotions in Quebec, 1870-1950“In the Public Good is an engaging historical study into why Ontario ultimately did not pass eugenic legislation despite active and publicized support for eugenic solutions. Koester’s study achieves everything it sets out to accomplish, a sometimes rare feat in academia, and sets a new standard for exploring the connections between eugenics and law.” H-Sci-Med-Tech“Elizabeth Koester's examination of parliamentary debates and legal cases concerning eugenic policy in Ontario between 1910 and 1938 is grounded in the tension between notions of the public good and individual freedom, a debate that remains relevant and contentious in discussions regarding how best to address issues of public concern.… Detailed and precise, Koester's text will be useful to anyone interested in the work and efforts of eugenicists during early twentieth‐century North America, and to those interested in the ways in which issues of public interest are debated and legislated.” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences“In the Public Good should be required reading for every graduate student considering the history of eugenics in Canada as well as for those already in the field. Koester adds to the growing historiography of eugenics in Canada with this solid contribution and offers a road map for other historians interested in regionalized histories of eugenics.” Canadian Historical Review
£91.80
John Wiley & Sons In the Public Good
Book SynopsisIn the Public Good examines the trajectory of eugenic ideas in Ontario in the early twentieth century, when the eugenics movement gained support for the solutions it offered to social ills of the day. Koester focuses on key legal events that influenced eugenic ideas, showing how the law was used both to promote and deflect eugenic thinking.Trade Review"In the Public Good challenges narrow views of the role of law in Canada's eugenic project by addressing different ways that legal institutions and norms were brought to bear on social problems." Eric H. Reiter, Concordia University and author of Wounded Feelings: Litigating Emotions in Quebec, 1870-1950“In the Public Good is an engaging historical study into why Ontario ultimately did not pass eugenic legislation despite active and publicized support for eugenic solutions. Koester’s study achieves everything it sets out to accomplish, a sometimes rare feat in academia, and sets a new standard for exploring the connections between eugenics and law.” H-Sci-Med-Tech“Elizabeth Koester's examination of parliamentary debates and legal cases concerning eugenic policy in Ontario between 1910 and 1938 is grounded in the tension between notions of the public good and individual freedom, a debate that remains relevant and contentious in discussions regarding how best to address issues of public concern.… Detailed and precise, Koester's text will be useful to anyone interested in the work and efforts of eugenicists during early twentieth‐century North America, and to those interested in the ways in which issues of public interest are debated and legislated.” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences“In the Public Good should be required reading for every graduate student considering the history of eugenics in Canada as well as for those already in the field. Koester adds to the growing historiography of eugenics in Canada with this solid contribution and offers a road map for other historians interested in regionalized histories of eugenics.” Canadian Historical Review
£27.90
John Wiley & Sons Law Life and the Teaching of Legal History
Book SynopsisUsing the life and intellectual heritage of Blaine Baker, Law, Life, and the Teaching of Legal History is both biographical study and important exploration into contemporary issues in Canadian legal history, including legal education, gender and race, technology, nation building, criminal law, and much more.Trade Review“An essential purchase for all academic libraries supporting law or history programs. I also highly recommend it to anyone with an interest in legal history, legal education, or biographies. A warning to the reader, however: between Professor Baker’s publications and those of the contributors, reading this book will certainly result in the lengthening of your reading list.” Canadian Law Library Review
£99.75
