Search results for ""Author Michael D. Green""
Oxford University Press Inc North American Indians
Book SynopsisWhen Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their agricultural, spiritual, and hunting practices? How did their societies evolve and what challenges do they face today? Eminent historians Theda Perdue and Michael Green begin by describing how nomadic bands of hunter-gatherers followed the bison and woolly mammoth over the Bering land mass between Asia and what is now Alaska between 25,000 and 15,000 years ago, settling throughout North America. They describe hunting practices among different tribes, how some made the gradual transition to more settled, agricultural ways of life, the role of kinship and cooperation in Native societies, their varied burial rites and spiritual practices, and many other features of Native American life. Throughout the book, Perdue and Green stress the great diversity of indigenous peoples in America, who spoke more than 400 different languages before the arrival of Europeans and whose ways of life varied according to the environments they settled in and adapted to so successfully. Most importantly, the authors stress how Native Americans have struggled to maintain their sovereignty--first with European powers and then with the United States--in order to retain their lands, govern themselves, support their people, and pursue practices that have made their lives meaningful. Going beyond the stereotypes that so often distort our views of Native Americans, this Very Short Introduction offers an historically accurate, deeply engaging, and often inspiring account of the wide array of Native peoples in America.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Table of ContentsContents Preface Chapter 1: Native America Chapter 2: The European Invasion Chapter 3: Indians in the East Chapter 4: Indians in the West Chapter 5: Assimilation and Allotment Chapter 6: Political Sovereignty and Economic Autonomy Chapter 7: Cultural Sovereignty Suggested Readings
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De Gruyter Proportional Liability: Analytical and Comparative Perspectives
Book SynopsisCausal uncertainty is a wide-spread phenomenon. Courts are often unable to determine whether a defendant’s tortious conduct was a factual cause of a plaintiff’s harm. Yet, sometimes courts can determine the probability that the defendant caused the plaintiff’s harm, although often there is considerable variance in the probability estimate based on the available evidence. The conventional way to cope with this uncertainty has been to apply the evidentiary rule of ‘standard of proof’. The application of this ‘all or nothing’ rule can lead to unfairness by absolving defendants who acted tortiously and may also create undesirable incentives that result in greater wrongful conduct and injustice to victims. Some courts have decided that this ‘no-liability’ outcome is undesirable. They have adopted rules of proportional liability that compensate plaintiffs according to the probability that their harm was caused by the defendant’s tortious conduct. In 2005 the Principles of European Tort Law (PETL) made a breakthrough in this regard by embracing rules of proportional liability. This project, building on PETL, endeavours to make further inquiries into the desirable scope of proportional liability and to offer a more detailed view of its meaning, implications, and ramifications.
£103.55
University of Nebraska Press The American Indian as Slaveholder and
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£21.59
De Gruyter PRODUCT LIABILITY: Fundamental Questions in a Comparative Perspective
Book SynopsisWhere products develop ever more rapidly, the law may face difficulties in responding accordingly to new security threats which may arise. In the field of product liability, an extraordinary need for legal development has thus been perceived, with legislators and judges feeling compelled to find new solutions and to look across borders for these. In the detailed reports in this book, the World Tort Law Society proves that it is in an ideal position to examine the most significant concepts. The report on North America studies the special regime for product liability from its origin in the case law of the US; the European report is centred around the EU Product Liability Directive with its merits and faults; and the influence of these two systems as well as new answers are shown in the reports on Asia, Russia and four key jurisdictions in the rest of the world. Similar questions are discussed worldwide: How can a strict liability regime for products be justified, and can it be justified in all cases? How does the special regime relate to general rules of tort law? Should services be subject to a similar regime? The Members of the Society seek to provoke thought for solutions to these pervasive problems. In this spirit, the volume’s comparative conclusions invite discussion, and the book includes four responses to that call from eminent tort lawyers from different legal backgrounds.Table of ContentsPreface Questions for Discussion (Helmut Koziol) Hypothetical Cases for Discussion (Ken Oliphant) Introductory Lecture (Helmut Koziol) Asia and Russia China (Yang Lixin/Yang Zhen) Japan (Yoshio Shiomi) Korea (So Jae-Seon/Song Jung-Eon) Macau (Tong Io Cheng/Leong Cheng Hang) Malaysia (Anisah Che Ngah/Sakina Shaik Ahmad Yusoff/Rahmah Ismail) Russia (Alexander Yagelnitskiy/Olesya Petrol) Taiwan (Cheng Jung Lung) Asian and Russian Comparative Report (Yang Lixin) European Group Report (Willem van Boom/Jean-Sébastien Borghetti/Andreas Bloch Ehlers/Ernst Karner/Donal Nolan/Ken Oliphant/Alessandro Scarso/Vibe Ulfbeck/Wagner) North American Group Report (Bruce Feldthusen/John C. P. Goldberg/Michael D. Green/Catherine M. Sharkey) Report for the Rest of the World (Enrique Barros Bourie/ Anton Fagan/Mark Lunney/Ronen Perry) Comparative Conclusions (Helmut Koziol) Statements in Response to the Conclusions Statement from an Asian Perspective (Yang Lixin) Statement from a European Common Law Perspective (Ken Oliphant) Statement from a Continental European Perspective (Willem van Boom) Statement from the Perspective of the Rest of the World (Anton Fagan)
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West Academic Toxic and Environmental Torts
Book SynopsisThis completely new casebook provides an integrated approach to private and public law responses to toxic insults to individuals and to the environment.
£234.75
Penguin Putnam Inc The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears
Book SynopsisIn the early nineteenth century, the U.S. government shifted its policy from trying to assimilate American Indians to relocating them, and proceeded to forcibly drive seventeen thousand Cherokees from their homelands. This journey of exile became known as the Trail of Tears. Historians Perdue and Green reveal the government''s betrayals and the divisions within the Cherokee Nation, follow the exiles along the Trail of Tears, and chronicle the hardships found in the West. In its trauma and tragedy, the Cherokee diaspora has come to represent the irreparable injustice done to Native Americans in the name of nation building-and in their determined survival, it represents the resilience of the Native American spirit.
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University of Nebraska Press The American Indian in the Civil War 18621865
Book Synopsis'The Civil War was a major event in the lives of southern Indians who had been removed to Indian Territory in the antebellum period. The author describes the 1862 Battle of Pea Ridge, a bloody disaster for the Confederates but a glorious moment for Colonel Stand Watie and his Cherokee Mounted Rifles.
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