Truth and Privilege. Libel Law in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, 1820-1840, Hardback - ***

This fascinating study analyzes the evolution of libel law in Nova Scotia and Massachusetts, in the crucible of conflicts over democratic instituti...

For many years, the far right has sown public distrust in the media as a political strategy, weaponizing libel law in an effort to stifle free spee...

This book examines the operation of the privilege against self-incrimination in England and Wales, paying particular attention to the influence of ...

The Dreadful Word describes how the criminalization, prosecution, and punishment of speech offenses in eighteenth-century Massachusetts helped to e...

Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, The Conspiracy of Capital offers a new history of American radicalism and the alliance between the modern b...

Today ownership of weapons poses more acute legal problems than ever before. In this volume, contributors confront urgent questions, among them the...

The first book to document the full range of entitlements granted to Cubans over other immigrants for more than half a century, highlighting the ra...

Reducere. Features of Massachusetts Real Estate License Exam Prep (MA-RELEP): National Principles & Law Key Point Review (60 pages)Real Estate Math Key Form...

Reducere. Features of Massachusetts Real Estate License Exam Prep (MA-RELEP): National Principles & Law Key Point Review (60 pages) Real Estate Math Key Form...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Matthew ClairIllustration(s): 14 tables.Number of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 275 x...

Reducere. In late September 1820, hoping to lay claim to territory then under dispute between Great Britain and the United States, Governor William King of t...

The Secret Barrister returns to debunk the biggest legal lies of our time. Taking you from your own home to the halls of Westminster, this is the t...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr. Freya (University of Bristol, UK) GowrleyIllustration(s): 8 color and 27 bw illusNumber of pages...

Convictions Without Truth sets out to determine whether and to what extent science and law may coexist in an institutional relationship that truthf...

A major study into the changes in moral politics and culture of working-class Radicalism during a crucial period of modern British history. -- .

The third book from the #1 bestselling, award-winning author. In this tell-all memoir, the Secret Barrister describes their journey and reveals how...

An illuminating investigation of how aquatint travel books transformed the way Britons viewed the world and their place within it

By focusing on such controversies and conflicts as the status of women, relations between the sexes, class antagonisms and the growth of a commerci...

How the Anglican church responded to population growth and the need for more accommodation, with the building of 1500 new churches, many of the fin...

Reducere. There are private schools all across the country, places with better resources, better teachers, better budgets. By definition, these schools are n...

DescriptionIn light of the George Zimmerman verdict, The New Black Fest commissioned six very diverse playwrights to write 10-minute plays on the t...

The first reference work to cover all engravers working on copper in Britain and Ireland 1714-1820Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Brit...

A leading criminologist draws on over 30 years' experience working with sex offenders to propose a new way of understanding sexual crimesThe preval...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Amelie Le RenardTranslator: Jane KuntzNumber of pages: 256Collection: Worlding the Middle EastPublic...

Scholars of eighteenth-century Britain, Ireland, and Enlightenment theatre will welcome this book as it uncovers the considerable contribution made...

Reducere. A country bitterly divided between two political parties. Populist mobs rising in support of a reactionary rabble-rouser. Foreign interference in t...

Could the courts really order the death of your innocent baby? Was there an illegal immigrant who couldn't be deported because he had a pet cat? Ar...

For more than 300 years Massachusetts executed men and women convicted of murder. This book offers an account of how the efforts of reformers and a...

A new and vivid re-telling of one of the most extraordinary moments in Scottish and British history. Published to mark the 200th anniversary of the...

From Colonial to Modern examines representations of girls in Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand girls' literature to trace how colonial authors ...

From the author of When You Read This, a smart, sharply observed novel about gender and class on a college campus in the spirit of The Female Persu...

A major study into mental disorder in English and Irish prisons between 1840 and 1900, Disorder Contained investigates the relationship between pri...