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  • Images in Law

    What does 'the law' look like? While numerous attempts have been made to examine law and legal action in terms of its language, little has yet been written that considers how visual images of the law influence its interpretation and execution in ways not discernible from written texts. This groundbreaking collection focuses on images in law, featuring contributions that show and discuss the ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • Historical Dictionary of Colonial America

    Series series Historical Dictionaries of U.S. Politics and Political Eras
    The years between 1450 and 1550 marked the end of one era in world history and the beginning of another. Most importantly, the focus of global commerce and power shifted from the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean, largely because of the discovery of the New World. The New World was more than a geographic novelty. It opened the way for new human possibilities, possibilities that were first ... Read more

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  • Contested Commonwealths

    Essays in American History

    Series series Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World
    United States historian William Pencak here collects thirteen of his essays, written beginning in 1976. Some deal with colonial and revolutionary crowds and communities in Massachusetts—the impressment riot of 1747, the popular uprisings of the 1760s and 1770s, and Shays' Rebellion. Others discuss the popular ideology of the American Revolution as expressed in songs and almanacs, while several ... Read more

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    Understanding the Value of Choice

    Our ability to make choices is fundamental to our sense of ourselves as human beings, and essential to the political values of freedom-protecting nations. Whom we love; where we work; how we spend our time; what we buy; such choices define us in the eyes of ourselves and others, and much blood and ink has been spilt to establish and protect our rights to make them freely. Choice can also be a ... Read more

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  • Escaping Salem

    The Other Witch Hunt of 1692

    Series series New Narratives in American History
    Few events in American history are as well remembered as the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. But there was another witch hunt that year, in Stamford, Connecticut, that has never been examined in depth. Now Richard Godbeer describes this "other witch hunt" in a concise, fascinating narrative that illuminates the colonial world and shatters the stereotype of early New Englanders as quick to accuse and ... Read more

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  • In Small Things Forgotten

    An Archaeology of Early American Life

    by James Deetz ...
    A fascinating study of American life and an explanation of how American life is studied through the everyday details of ordinary living, colorfully depicting a world hundreds of years in the past.History is recorded in many ways. According to author James Deetz, the past can be seen most fully by studying the small things so often forgotten. Objects such as doorways, gravestones, musical ... Read more

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  • Making Haste from Babylon

    The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World: A New History

    by Nick Bunker ...
    At the end of 1618, a blazing green star soared across the night sky over the northern hemisphere. From the Philippines to the Arctic, the comet became a sensation and a symbol, a warning of doom or a promise of salvation. Two years later, as the Pilgrims prepared to sail across the Atlantic on board the Mayflower, the atmosphere remained charged with fear and expectation. Men and women readied ... Read more

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  • The Life of George Washington

    All Five Volumes in a Single File

    by John Marshall ...
    The classic biography by John Marshall, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. According to Wikipedia: "George Washington (February 22, 1732 [O.S. February 11, 1731 – December 14, 1799) served as the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797 and as the commander of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1783. Because of his significant role in the revolution ... Read more

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  • Laboring Women

    Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery

    Series series Early American Studies
    When black women were brought from Africa to the New World as slave laborers, their value was determined by their ability to work as well as their potential to bear children, who by law would become the enslaved property of the mother's master. In Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery, Jennifer L. Morgan examines for the first time how African women's labor in both senses ... Read more

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  • Empirical Views on European Gambling Law and Addiction

    by Simon Planzer ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book analyses the voluminous and meandering case law on gambling of the Court of Justice from an empirical perspective. It offers a comprehensive overview of the legal situation of gambling services in the EU Single Market. Additionally, the book presents the current state of research on gambling addiction. It then seeks to answer the central research question as to what extent the views of ... Read more

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  • The Whole History Of Grandfather's Chair

    While narrating the history of the chair, the whole history of America initiating from the first settlers to the American war for freedom, is narrated. The whole tale is related in an amazing manner. The heroic deeds of the soldiers who laid down their lives for their beliefs are inspiringly told. ... Read more

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  • Copyrighting Creativity

    Creative Values, Cultural Heritage Institutions and Systems of Intellectual Property

    Edited by Helle Porsdam ...
    Series series Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities
    What is the relationship between creativity, cultural heritage institutions and copyright? Who owns culture and cultural heritage? The digital age has expanded the horizon of creative possibilities for artists and cultural institutions - what is the impact on legal regimes that were constructed for an analogue world? What are the tensions between the safeguarding of cultural heritage and the ... Read more

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