1,657円 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 th...

5,306円 For most Americans, the Revolution’s main achievement is summed up by the phrase “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Yet far from a straightforward attempt to be free of Old World laws and customs, the American founding was also a bid for inclusion in the community of nations as it exi...

1,757円 Il y a deux constitutionnalismes. La constitution naturelle, historique, traditionnelle est éparse, non codifiée: elle résulte de l’écoulement du temps et de la sédimentation au fil du temps; tandis que la constitution moderne, codifiée, volontariste est systématique, synthétique: elle est conçue...

11,444円 'Peace' is often simplistically assumed to be war's opposite, and as such is not examined closely or critically idealized in the literature of peace studies, its crucial role in the justification of war is often overlooked. Starting from a critical view that the value of 'restoring peace' or 'kee...

1,657円 El presente libro tiene por objeto el estudio de la conexión existente entre la Constitución y la Literatura. A partir de ello, tiene por objetivo rescatar, si es que aún existe, el sentido de un tiempo en el que la justicia era poética, cuando los debates acadé...

1,657円 O autor parte da crise do pensamento filosófico nos séculos XIX e XX e da influência que passaram a exercer Comte e Kant sobre todas as áreas da cultura, em especial sobre o mundo do Direito. O positivismo jurídico, instalado a partir daí, deu fundamentação doutrinária ao domínio político de désp...

12,769円 Russian Citizenship is the first book to trace the Russian state’s citizenship policy throughout its history. Focusing on the period from the mid-nineteenth century to the consolidation of Stalin’s power in the 1930s, Eric Lohr considers whom the state counted among its citizens and whom it took ...

5,214円 Scholars of southern Appalachia have largely focused their research on men, particularly white men. While there have been a few important studies of Appalachian women, no one book has offered a broad overview across time and place. With this collection, editors Connie Park Rice and Marie Tedesco ...

4,908円 The three decades after the end of World War II saw the rise and fall of a particular version of liberalism in which the state committed itself to promoting a modest form of economic egalitarianism while simultaneously embracing ethnic, racial, and religious pluralism. But by the mid-1970s, postw...

4,230円 A groundbreaking analysis of how gendered oppression is written into the American legal system Law, Gender, and Injustice: A Legal History of U.S. Woman is a landmark study of how women remain second-class citizens under the current legal system. In this widely acclaimed book, Joan Hoff questions...

11,772円 Crime in England, 1815-1880 provides a unique insight into views on crime and criminality and the operation of the criminal justice system in England from the early to the late nineteenth century. This book examines the perceived problem and causes of crime, views about offenders and the conseque...

9,583円 Drawing on groundbreaking and overwhelmingly extensive research into local court records, The Common Law in Colonial America proposes a "new beginning" in the study of colonial legal history, as it charts the course of the common law in Early America, to reveal how the models of law that emerged ...