Women Before the Court. Law and Patriarchy in the Anglo-American World, 1600-1800, Paperback - Lindsay R. Moore

This book is a ground-breaking study of women in Britain and British America through two centuries of pivotal changes in the law, economy and empir...

DescriptionThis book offers an innovative, comparative approach to the study of women's legal rights during a formative period of AngloAmerican his...

Reducere. Winner of the 2014 Christian Gauss Award for excellence in literary scholarship from the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Having excavated the world's earli...

Winner of the 2014 Christian Gauss Award for excellence in literary scholarship from the Phi Beta Kappa SocietyHaving excavated the world's earlies...

A powerful account of how the complex mercantile and military relationships between the British, Dutch, and American territories made the Industria...

In this original, far-reaching, and timely book, Justice Stephen Breyer examines the work of the Supreme Court of the United States in an increasin...

The follow-up to Moore's acclaimed first volume on the history of the novel, this picks up where the story left off - beginning with Cervante's }Do...

To achieve justice and equal protection under the law, Latinos have turned to the U.S. court system to assert and defend their rights. Some of thes...

Attitudes toward homosexuality in the premodern Arab-Islamic world are commonly depicted as schizophrenic. This title argues that this apparent par...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Renee Knake JeffersonIllustration(s): 15 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022...

Reducere. The theory of natural law grounds human laws in the universal truths of God's creation. Until very recently, lawyers in the Western tradition studi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Edward Aaron Harvey SrThe Constitution names only three federal crimes: treason, piracy, counterfeiting, and no other crime...

Analyses landmark US Supreme Court cases involving children's free speech and due process rights and argues that our ideas about civic and legal ju...

'It is my thesis that this general production of life, or subsistence production - mainly performed through the non-wage labour of women and other ...

Reducere. Since the end of the Cold War so-called experts have been predicting the eclipse of America's "special relationship" with Britain. But as events ha...

This multi-disciplinary study considers the intersection between law and family life in Ireland from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth cent...

A comprehensive study of the connection between Calvinist missions and Dutch imperial expansion during the early modern periodPublisher: Yale Unive...

How did the Dutch Empire compare with other imperial enterprises? And how was it experienced by the indigenous peoples who became part of this colo...

Provides a history of the Court placed within the context of a broader history of the United States and its politics. In contrast to a typical book...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Stanley L. BrodskyTestifying in court can be a challenging experience. Novices who are unfamiliar with the judicial environ...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWASHINGTON POST BESTSELLERThe author of the celebrated Victory tells the fascinating story of the intertwined lives of San...

DescriptionFor centuries the Western view of the Iroquois was clouded by the myth that they were the supermen of the frontier--"the Romans of this ...

Women performers played a vital role in the development of American and transatlantic entertainment, celebrity culture, and gender ideology. Sara E...

Reducere. -A must-read, sure to engage. . . An important and richly narrated reminder to women of why, 'If you not at the table, you're on the menu.'- --Jess...

An accessible account of how American foreign policy ideologies structure competing meanings of the 'international rule of law'. International Crim...

Locates the immediate origins of the Anglo-American 'special relationship' in the diplomacy of Roosevelt's administration.Publisher: Edinburgh Univ...

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Reducere. DescriptionThe fundamental fact about our Constitution is that it is old -- the oldest written constitution in the world. The fundamental challenge...

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DescriptionWith the Constitutional Convention in 1787, America was set on a course to develop a unique system of law with roots in the English comm...

Reducere. Joyce Malcolm illuminates the historical facts underlying the current passionate debate about gun-related violence, the Brady Bill, and the NRA, re...

Leading historians and political scientists explore the changes and continuities in world politics that emerged from the end of the Cold War. Using...

Reducere. A comprehensive history of the people and cases that have changed history, this is the definitive account of the nation's highest court Recent chan...

DescriptionAfter a restrained 2017 term in which the Supreme Court muddled through most of its work with just eight justices, the court roared back...

The military trial of William Calley for his role in the slaughter of 500 or more Vietnamese civilians at My Lai shocked a nation already sharply d...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: F. William Engdahl -A must read for every citizen on this planet...- -- Amazon Customer -A must read...- -- Ahmed M. Alraye...

Reducere. This book explores the implications of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Ohio et al. v. American Express, and the preceding litigation, for the tr...

Reducere. During World War II, unprecedented employment avenues opened up for women and minorities in U.S. defense industries at the same time that massive p...

Reducere. I am stunned by the scope and breadth of this splendid new collection of sources. It includes memories, stories, letters, poems and more, gathered ...

Reducere. If the U.S. Supreme Court teaches us anything, it is that almost everything is open to interpretation. Almost. But what's inarguable is that, while...

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