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  • Driven toward Madness

    The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio

    par Nikki M. Taylor ...
    Series series New Approaches to Midwestern Studies
    Margaret Garner was the runaway slave who, when confronted with capture just outside of Cincinnati, slit the throat of her toddler daughter rather than have her face a life in slavery. Her story has inspired Toni Morrison’s Beloved, a film based on the novel starring Oprah Winfrey, and an opera. Yet, her life has defied solid historical treatment. In Driven toward Madness, Nikki M. Taylor ... Lire la suite

    $22.99 USD

  • The Odd Clauses

    Understanding the Constitution Through Ten of Its Most Curious Provisions

    par Jay Wexler ...
    A hilariously entertaining tour through the lesser-known clauses of the United States Constitution, with absurd insights into American history and lawIf the United States Constitution were a zoo, and the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth amendments were a lion, a giraffe, and a panda bear, respectively, then The Odd Clauses would be a special exhibit of shrews, wombats, and bat-eared foxes. Past the ... Lire la suite

    $13.99 USD

  • Then Comes Marriage: United States v. Windsor and the Defeat of DOMA

    par Roberta Kaplan ...
    A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2015: “A riveting account of a watershed moment in our history.”—President Bill ClintonRenowned litigator Roberta Kaplan knew from the beginning that it was the perfect case to bring down the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Edie Windsor and Thea Spyer had been together as a couple, in sickness and in health, for more than forty years—enduring society’s ... Lire la suite

    $13.99 USD

  • Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs

    **A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA New Yorker Best Book of 2024 So FarA fascinating and original history of an idea that now controls and monetizes almost everything we do.**Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment, battles are raging ... Lire la suite

    $19.99 USD

  • The Supreme Court

    20 Cases that Changed America

    par Tony Mauro ...
    A concise, informative guide to the twenty most momentous Court rulings in American history, including excerpts from the written decisions and dissents.The legislative branch of government creates laws, and the executive branch signs and enforces them. But how does America make sure these laws don’t run afoul of the Constitution? That responsibility lies with the final arbiters: the nine justices ... Lire la suite

    $12.99 USD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Abortion in Early Modern Italy

    Series series I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history
    A comprehensive history of abortion in Renaissance Italy.In this authoritative history, John Christopoulos provides a provocative and far-reaching account of abortion in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy. His poignant portraits of women who terminated or were forced to terminate pregnancies offer a corrective to longstanding views: he finds that Italians maintained a fundamental ambivalence ... Lire la suite

    $43.99 USD

  • Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation

    par Steve Luxenberg ...
    **A New York Times Editors' ChoiceWinner of the J. Anthony Lukas AwardLonglisted for the Cundill History Prize“Absorbing.… Segregation is not one story but many. Luxenberg has written his with energy, elegance and a heart aching for a world without it.” —James Goodman, The New York Times Book Review**Separate is a myth-shattering narrative of one of the most consequential Supreme Court cases of ... Lire la suite

    $14.99 USD

  • Discordant Notes, Volume 1

    The Voice of Dissent in The Last Court of Resort

    A dissenting judgment, as ordinarily understood, is a judgment or an opinion of a judge, sitting as part of a larger bench, who 'dissents' (i.e. disagrees) with the opinion or judgment of the majority. Dissenting judgments or opinions appear in different ways. Tracing, exploring and analysing all dissenting judgments in the history of the Supreme Court of India, from the beginning till date, ... Lire la suite

    $9.99 USD

  • Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe

    Complicity and Conscience in America's World War II Concentration Camps

    par Eric L. Muller ...
    It is 1942, and World War II is raging. In the months since Pearl Harbor, the US has plunged into the war overseas—and on the home front, it has locked up tens of thousands of innocent Japanese Americans in concentration camps, tearing them from their homes on the West Coast with the ostensible goal of neutralizing a supposed internal threat.At each of these camps the government places a white ... Lire la suite

    $22.99 USD

  • Muhammad

    A Prophet for Our Time

    The Man Who Inspired the World's Fastest-Growing ReligionMuhammad presents a fascinating portrait of the founder of a religion that continues to change the course of world history. Muhammad's story is more relevant than ever because it offers crucial insight into the true origins of an increasingly radicalized Islam. Countering those who dismiss Islam as fanatical and violent, Armstrong offers a ... Lire la suite

    $13.49 USD

  • The Sewing Girl's Tale

    A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America

    par John Wood Sweet ...
    New York Times Editors’ ChoiceWinner of the Bancroft PrizeWinner of the Francis Parkman PrizeWinner of the Gotham Book PrizeWinner of the New York Society Library's New York City Book AwardJournal of the American Revolution Book of the YearWinner of the David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Legal History<... ... Lire la suite

    $12.99 USD

  • The Harm in Hate Speech

    par Jeremy Waldron ...
    Series series The Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures, 2009.
    For constitutionalists, regulation of hate speech violates the First Amendment and damages a free society. Waldron rejects this view, and makes the case that hate speech should be regulated as part of a commitment to human dignity and to inclusion and respect for members of vulnerable minorities. ... Lire la suite

    $16.99 USD

  • Law in America

    A Short History

    Collections Livre 10 - Modern Library Chronicles
    “Law in America is a little gem. It is a peerless introduction to our legal history—concise, clear, tellingly told, and beautifully written. The greatest living historian of American law has done it again.”—Stanley N. Katz,former president of the American Society for Legal History and the Organization of American Historians“All societies have laws, but neither all laws nor all legal systems are ... Lire la suite

    $12.99 USD

  • Birth of a White Nation

    The Invention of White People and Its Relevance Today

    Birth of a White Nation is a fascinating new book on race in America that begins with an exploration of the moment in time when "white people,” as a separate and distinct group of humanity, were invented through legislation and the enactment of laws. The book provides a thorough examination of the underlying reasons as well as the ways in which “white people” were created. It also explains how the ... Lire la suite

    $9.99 USD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Memoirs and Reflections

    par Roy McMurtry ...
    From “the Kid” on the Varsity Blues football team to “the Chief” at Osgoode Hall, R. Roy McMurtry has had a remarkably varied and influential career. As reformist attorney general of Ontario, one of the architects of the agreement that brought about the patriation of the Canadian Constitution, high commissioner to the United Kingdom, and chief justice of Ontario, he made a large and enduring ... Lire la suite

    $38.99 USD

  • American Legal History: A Very Short Introduction

    par G. Edward White ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Law has played a central role in American history. From colonial times to the present, law has not just reflected the changing society in which legal decisions have been made-it has played a powerful role in shaping that society, though not always in positive ways. Eminent legal scholar G. Edward White-author of the ongoing, multi-volume Law in American History-offers a compact overview that sheds ... Lire la suite

    $7.99 USD

  • The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics

    par Stephen Breyer ...
    A sitting justice reflects upon the authority of the Supreme Court—how that authority was gained and how measures to restructure the Court could undermine both the Court and the constitutional system of checks and balances that depends on it.A growing chorus of officials and commentators argues that the Supreme Court has become too political. On this view the confirmation process is just an ... Lire la suite

    $14.99 USD

  • White by Law 10th Anniversary Edition

    The Legal Construction of Race

    par Ian Haney Lopez ...
    Series series Critical America
    “Remains the definitive work on how American law constructed a ‘white’ race at the turn of the twentieth century . . . A must-read.” —Mae M. Ngai, author of Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern AmericaThe first book to fully explore the social and specifically legal construction of race, White by Law inspired a generation of critical race theorists and others interested in ... Lire la suite

    $23.99 USD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Chief Justiceship of William Howard Taft, 1921–1930

    par Jonathan Lurie ...
    Series series Chief Justiceships of the United States Supreme Court
    A study of the Supreme Court tenure of the only US president to serve as chief justice provides a unique perspective on 1920s America.In this book, Jonathan Lurie offers a comprehensive examination of the Supreme Court tenure of the only person to have held the offices of president of the United States and chief justice of the United States Supreme Court. William Howard Taft joined the Court ... Lire la suite

    $12.99 USD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso

    A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America

    Shortly after a dismembered torso was discovered by a pond outside Philadelphia in 1887, investigators homed in on two suspects: Hannah Mary Tabbs, a married, working-class, black woman, and George Wilson, a former neighbor whom Tabbs implicated after her arrest. As details surrounding the shocking case emerged, both the crime and ensuing trial--which spanned several months--were featured in the ... Lire la suite

    $13.99 USD

  • Notorious RBG

    The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    New York Times BestsellerFeatured in the critically acclaimed documentary RBG"It was beyond my wildest imagination that I would one day become the 'Notorious RBG." — Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 2019She was a fierce dissenter with a serious collar game. A legendary, self-described “flaming feminist litigator” who made the world more equal. And an intergenerational icon affectionately known as the ... Lire la suite

    $18.99 USD

  • The Buffalo Creek Disaster

    How the survivors of one of the worst disasters in coal-mining history brought s uit against the coal company--and won

    par Gerald M. Stern ...
    The "suspenseful and completely absorbing story" (San Francisco Chronicle) of how survivors of the worst coal-mining disaster in history triumphed over corporate irresponsibility—written by the young lawyer who took on their case and won.One Saturday morning in February 1972, an impoundment dam owned by the Pittston Coal Company burst, sending a 130 million gallon, 25 foot tidal wave of water, ... Lire la suite

    $13.99 USD

  • Someone to Love Us: The shocking true story of two brothers fostered into brutality and neglect

    The harrowing true story of the young boy who captured the heart of the nation when he testified in court, to find justice against those responsible for his brother’s death.Terry O’Neill was just ten years old when he stood up in court to testify against his brutal foster parents, accused of the manslaughter of his twelve-year-old brother, Dennis.Terry and his brother had been taken into care and ... Lire la suite

    $11.99 USD

  • Enemies

    A History of the FBI

    par Tim Weiner ...
    The hidden history of the FBI and its hundred-year war against terrorists, spies, and anyone it deemed subversive—including even American presidents.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A SHOWTIME ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES“Turns the long history of the FBI into a story that is as compelling, and important, as today’s headlines.”—Jeffrey Toobin, author of American HeiressEnemies is the first d... ... Lire la suite

    $14.99 USD