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“sandra davidson”

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  • Beneath the Armagh Sky

    by Sandra Davidson ...
    Beneath the Armagh Sky - Growing Up on Spring Farm by Sandra Davidson is a nostalgic and heartwarming memoir that transports readers to a charming family farm nestled in the countryside of Armagh, Northern Ireland. The book recounts the author's childhood years spent with her siblings, exploring the beauty and serenity of rural life, where the hustle of farm chores, the joy of music, and the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • An Indispensable Liberty

    The Fight for Free Speech in Nineteenth-Century America

    by David W. Bulla, Jon Bekken, Sandra Davidson, Nancy McKenzie Dupont, Joseph Hayden, Lee Jolliffe, Paulette D. Kilmer, Erika Jean Pribanic-Smith, Debra Reddin van Tuyll, Janice R. Wood ...
    Most Americans today view freedom of speech as a bedrock of all other liberties, a defining feature of American citizenship. During the nineteenth century, the popular concept of American freedom of speech was still being formed. In An Indispensable Liberty: The Fight for Free Speech in Nineteenth-Century America, contributors examine attempts to restrict freedom of speech and the press during and ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

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  • The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers

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    A compelling, intimate look at the founders—George Washington, Ben Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison—and the women who played essential roles in their livesWith his usual storytelling flair and unparalleled research, Tom Fleming examines the women who were at the center of the lives of the founding fathers. From hot-tempered Mary Ball Washington to ... Read more

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  • Prostitution, Sexuality, and the Law in Ancient Rome

    by Thomas A. J. McGinn ...
    This is a study of the legal rules affecting the practice of female prostitution at Rome approximately from 200 B.C. to A.D. 250. It examines the formation and precise content of the legal norms developed for prostitution and those engaged in this profession, with close attention to their social context. McGinn's unique study explores the "fit" between the law-system and the socio-economic reality ... Read more

    $75.59 USD

  • The Ends of History

    Questioning the Stakes of Historical Reason

    Edited by Amy Swiffen, Joshua Nichols ...
    The Ends of History? considers how, despite the fact that events in the past 20 years have called Francis Fukuyama’s infamous announcement of the end of history into question, the issue of the end of history is now a matter of renewed interest and debate.Two decades ago we were confronted by the end of the Soviet Union and collapse of the geo-political divisions that had defined much of the ... Read more

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  • English Common Law in the Age of Mansfield

    by James Oldham ...
    Series series Studies in Legal History
    In the eighteenth century, the English common law courts laid the foundation that continues to support present-day Anglo-American law. Lord Mansfield, Chief Justice of the Court of King’s Bench, 1756–1788, was the dominant judicial force behind these developments. In this abridgment of his two-volume book, The Mansfield Manuscripts and the Growth of English Law in the Eighteenth Century, James ... Read more

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  • Everyman's Constitution

    Historical Essays on the Fourteenth Amendment, the "Conspiracy Theory," and American Constitutionalism

    by Howard Jay Graham ...
    In 1938, Howard Jay Graham, a deaf law librarian, successfully argued that the authors of the Fourteenth Amendment--ratified after the American Civil War to establish equal protection under the law for all American citizens regardless of race--were motivated by abolitionist fervor, debunking the notion of a corporate conspiracy at the heart of the amendment's wording. For over half a century, the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Living Legislation

    Durability, Change, and the Politics of American Lawmaking

    by William J. Novak, Jeffrey E. Cohen, Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha, Sean Gailmard, Christopher R. Berry, Barry C. Burden, William G. Howell, Forrest Maltzman, Charles R. Shipan, Amihai Glazer, David E. Lewis, Stuart Chinn, Vesla M. Weaver, David R. Mayhew, Sidney M. Milkis ...
    Political scholars examine the dynamic evolution of laws over time in a volume that "pushes the frontiers of knowledge about lawmaking in the US" ( Choice).Politics is at its most dramatic during debates over important pieces of legislation. And while debates over legislative measures can rage for years or even decades before an item is enacted, they also endure long afterward, when the political ... Read more

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  • Jefferson's Freeholders and the Politics of Ownership in the Old Dominion

    by Christopher Michael Curtis ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies on the American South
    Jefferson's Freeholders and the Politics of Ownership in the Old Dominion explores the historical processes by which Virginia was transformed from a British colony into a Southern slave state. It focuses on changing conceptualizations of ownership and emphasizes the persistent influence of the English common law on Virginia's postcolonial political culture. The book explains how the traditional ... Read more

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  • Lochner v. New York

    Economic Regulation on Trial

    by Paul Kens ...
    Series series Landmark Law Cases and American Society
    Lochner v. New York (1905), which pitted a conservative activist judiciary against a reform-minded legislature, remains one of the most important and most frequently cited cases in Supreme Court history. In this concise and readable guide, Paul Kens shows us why the case remains such an important marker in the ideological battles between the free market and the regulatory state.The Supreme Court’s ... Read more

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  • Law, Debt, and Merchant Power

    The Civil Courts of Eighteenth-Century Halifax

    Edited by James Muir ...
    Series series Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
    In the early history of Halifax (1749-1766), debt litigation was extremely common. People from all classes frequently used litigation and its use in private matters was higher than almost all places in the British Empire in the 18th century.In Law, Debt, and Merchant Power, JamesMuir offers an extensive analysis of the civil cases of the time as well as the reasons behind their frequency. Muir’s ... Read more

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  • Tales of New England

    Writings of Arthur Raffel

    by Arthur Raffel ...
    His writing is straightforward depicting the New England countryside and climate, giving inanimate objects human qualities and treating simple everyday acts of life with reverence. ... Read more

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