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  • Transnational Legal Ordering of Criminal Justice

    Edited by Gregory Shaffer, Ely Aaronson ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    Hard and soft law developed by international and regional organizations, transgovernmental networks, and international courts increasingly shape rules, procedures, and practices governing criminalization, policing, prosecution, and punishment. This dynamic calls into question traditional approaches that study criminal justice from a predominantly national perspective, or that dichotomize the study ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • From Slave Abuse to Hate Crime

    The Criminalization of Racial Violence in American History

    by Ely Aaronson ...
    Series series Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
    This book explores the complex ways in which political debates and legal reforms regarding the criminalization of racial violence have shaped the development of American racial history. Spanning previous campaigns for criminalizing slave abuse, lynching, and Klan violence and contemporary debates about the legal response to hate crimes, this book reveals both continuity and change in terms of the ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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  • Imbeciles

    The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck

    by Adam Cohen ...
    **Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for NonfictionOne of America’s great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court’s infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell ruling made government sterilization of “undesirable” citizens the law of the land**In 1927, the Supreme Court handed down a ruling so disturbing, ignorant, and cruel that it stands as one of the great injustices in American history. In ... Read more

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  • Sketches in the History of the Underground Railroad

    by Eber Pettit ...
    True stories drawn from the inspirational and heartrending history of the Underground RailroadIt is estimated that by 1850 over one hundred thousand slaves had escaped to freedom in the North via a network of safe houses and secret routes known collectively as the Underground Railroad. First published in 1879, Sketches in the History of the Underground Railroad chronicles the perilous journeys and ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jurisprudence

    by Suri Ratnapala ...
    The third edition of Jurisprudence offers a logically structured, comprehensive, well-researched and accessible overview of legal theory and philosophy. Written primarily for undergraduate students, it examines and demystifies the discipline's major ideas, and promotes a richer understanding of the social, moral and economic dimensions of the law. By locating the major traditions of jurisprudence ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

  • Abolition

    A History of Slavery and Antislavery

    by Seymour Drescher ...
    In one form or another, slavery has existed throughout the world for millennia. It helped to change the world, and the world transformed the institution. In the 1450s, when Europeans from the small corner of the globe least enmeshed in the institution first interacted with peoples of other continents, they created, in the Americas, the most dynamic, productive, and exploitative system of coerced ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Making Money

    Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism

    by Christine Desan ...
    Money travels the modern world in disguise. It looks like a convention of human exchange - a commodity like gold or a medium like language. But its history reveals that money is a very different matter. It is an institution engineered by political communities to mark and mobilize resources. As societies change the way they create money, they change the market itself - along with the rules that ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • The Atlantic Slave Trade

    by Herbert S. Klein ...
    Series series New Approaches to the Americas
    This survey is a synthesis of the economic, social, cultural, and political history of the Atlantic slave trade, providing the general reader with a basic understanding of the current state of scholarly knowledge of forced African migration and compares this knowledge to popular beliefs. The Atlantic Slave Trade examines the four hundred years of Atlantic slave trade, covering the West and East ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • The Legal Understanding of Slavery

    From the Historical to the Contemporary

    Edited by Jean Allain ...
    "Slavery is the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised." So reads the legal definition of slavery agreed by the League of Nations in 1926. Further enshrined in law during international negotiations in 1956 and 1998, this definition has been interpreted in different ways by the international courts in the intervening ... Read more

    $133.99 USD

  • Slavery, Law, and Politics

    The Dred Scott Case in Historical Perspective

    by Don E. Fehrenbacher ...
    Series series Galaxy Books
    This is an abridgement of the Pulitzer-Prize winning The Dred Scott Case, making Fehrenbacher's monumental work available to a wider audience. Although it condenses the original by half, all the chapters and major themes of the larger work have been retained, providing a masterful review of the issues before America on the eve of the Civil War. ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • From Africa to Brazil

    Culture, Identity, and an Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600–1830

    by Walter Hawthorne ...
    Series Book 113 - African Studies
    From Africa to Brazil traces the flows of enslaved Africans from the broad region of Africa called Upper Guinea to Amazonia, Brazil. These two regions, though separated by an ocean, were made one by a slave route. Walter Hawthorne considers why planters in Amazonia wanted African slaves, why and how those sent to Amazonia were enslaved, and what their Middle Passage experience was like. The book ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law

    by Daniel Högger ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law provides an authoritative and original overview of the origins, concepts, and core issues of international law. The first comprehensive Handbook on the history of international law, it is a truly unique contribution to the literature of international law and relations. Pursuing both a global and an interdisciplinary approach, the Handbook ... Read more

    $80.99 USD