Legal History


The Oxford History of the Laws of England Volume II

900-1216
$300.00
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Hardback May 2012 ISBN13: 9780198260301ISBN10: 019826030X The most comprehensive history of medieval English law published for over one hundred years.
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Confessions of Guilt

From Torture to Miranda and Beyond
$39.95
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Hardback Mar 2012 ISBN13: 9780195338935ISBN10: 0195338936 Traces the law of interrogation as it reflects the level of threat felt in society, moving back and forth from greater to lesser tolerance of high-pressure police tactics
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William Blackstone

Law and Letters in the Eighteenth Century
$40.00
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Paperback Mar 2012 ISBN13: 9780199652013ISBN10: 0199652015 This book offers the first scholarly biography of the most influential figure in the history of English and American law.
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Broken Landscape

Indians, Indian Tribes, and the Constitution
$24.95
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Paperback Feb 2012 ISBN13: 9780199915736ISBN10: 0199915733 A sweeping chronicle of Indian tribal sovereignty under the United States Constitution and the way that legislators have interpreted and misinterpreted tribal sovereignty since the nation's founding
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Law in American History

Volume 1: From the Colonial Years Through the Civil War
$39.95
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Hardback Jan 2012 ISBN13: 9780195102475ISBN10: 0195102479 A comprehensive narrative history of American law from the colonial period through the civil war
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Lords of the Land

Indigenous Property Rights and the Jurisprudence of Empire
$140.00
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Hardback Jan 2012 ISBN13: 9780199568659ISBN10: 0199568650 This book offers a ground-breaking historical study of indigenous property rights that examines the interface between policy-making, popular politics, and law in the establishment of imperial rule.
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The Revolutionary Constitution

$29.95
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Hardback Jan 2012 ISBN13: 9780195378337ISBN10: 0195378334 A brilliant analysis of the Constitution as a document intended to change over time, showing how its creators drafted it with their own revolutionary experience in mind
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The Bible, the School, and the Constitution

The Clash that Shaped Modern Church-State Doctrine
$29.95
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Hardback Jan 2012 ISBN13: 9780199827909ISBN10: 0199827907 A fascinating history of the controversy over reading the Bible in public schools, covering the years 1863 to 1876. when this heated debate reached its peak
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Bastards

Politics, Family, and Law in Early Modern France
$74.00
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Hardback Jan 2012 ISBN13: 9780199755370ISBN10: 019975537X
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Grounds of Judgment

Extraterritoriality and Imperial Power in Nineteenth-Century China and Japan
$39.95
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Hardback Dec 2011 ISBN13: 9780199792054ISBN10: 0199792054

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