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  • The Saints and the State

    The Mormon Troubles in Illinois

    by James Simeone ...
    Series series New Approaches to Midwestern Studies
    A compelling history of the 1846 Mormon expulsion from Illinois that exemplifies the limits of American democracy and religious tolerance.When members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (known as Mormons) settled in Illinois in 1839, they had been persecuted for their beliefs from Ohio to Missouri. Illinoisans viewed themselves as religiously tolerant egalitarians and initially ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Criminalization of Migration

    Context and Consequences

    Edited by Idil Atak, James Simeon ...
    Series Book 1 - McGill-Queen's Refugee and Forced Migration Studies
    With over 240 million migrants in the world, including over 65 million forced migrants and refugees, states have turned to draconian measures to stem the flow of irregular migration, including the criminalization of migration itself. Canada, perceived as a nation of immigrants and touted as one of the most generous countries in the world today for its reception of refugees, has not been immune ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Criminalization of Migration

    Context and Consequences

    Edited by Idil Atak, James Simeon ...
    Series Book 1 - McGill-Queen's Refugee and Forced Migration Studies
    With over 240 million migrants in the world, including over 65 million forced migrants and refugees, states have turned to draconian measures to stem the flow of irregular migration, including the criminalization of migration itself. Canada, perceived as a nation of immigrants and touted as one of the most generous countries in the world today for its reception of refugees, has not been immune ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • Serious International Crimes, Human Rights, and Forced Migration

    Edited by James C. Simeon ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Asylum, Migration and Refugee Law
    This volume elucidates and explores the interrelationships and direct causal connection between serious international crimes, serious breaches to fundamental human rights, and gross affronts to human dignity that lead to mass forced migration.Forced migration most often occurs in the context of protracted armed conflict of a noninternational nature where terrorism, fierce fighting, deep animosity, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Critical Issues in International Refugee Law

    Strategies toward Interpretative Harmony

    Edited by James C. Simeon ...
    This volume of essays examines key cutting-edge areas of international refugee law, including strategies for interpretative harmony, the rights of refugees and the standard of proof in complementary protection. Each topic is examined from a theoretical and a practical perspective in order to find solutions to the many legal issues and concerns which currently confront this area of law, and to seek ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The UNHCR and the Supervision of International Refugee Law

    Edited by James C. Simeon ...
    The 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, and its 1967 Protocol, and many other important international instruments recognize the unique role the UNHCR plays in protecting refugees and supervising international refugee law. This in-depth analysis of the UNHCR's supervisory role in the international refugee protection regime examines the part played by key institutions, organizations ... Read more

    $127.09 USD

  • Mobilizing Global Knowledge

    Refugee Research in an Age of Displacement

    by Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi, Paula Banerjee, Pablo Bose, Nergis Canefe, Christina Clark-Kazak, Don Dippo, Wenona Giles, Susan Kneebone, Ellen Percy Kraly, Loren B. Landau, Elizabeth Lunstrum, Susan F. Martin, Michele Millard, Petra Molnar, William J. Payne, Ranabir Samaddar, Beatriz Eugenia Sanchez-Mojica, James C. Simeon, Lisa Singh, Brittany Lauren Wheeler ...
    In 2018, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees documented a record high 71.4 million displaced people around the world. As states struggle with the costs of providing protection to so many people and popular conceptions of refugees have become increasingly politicized and sensationalized, researchers have come together to form regional and global networks dedicated to working with ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

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  • The American Dream

    A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation

    by Jim Cullen ...
    "The American Dream" is one of the most familiar and resonant phrases in our national lexicon, so familiar that we seldom pause to ask its origin, its history, or what it actually means. In this fascinating short history, Jim Cullen explores the meaning of the American Dream, or rather the several American Dreams that have both reflected and shaped American identity from the Pilgrims to the ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

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  • The Founding Fathers Reconsidered

    by R. B. Bernstein ...
    Here is a vividly written and compact overview of the brilliant, flawed, and quarrelsome group of lawyers, politicians, merchants, military men, and clergy known as the "Founding Fathers"--who got as close to the ideal of the Platonic "philosopher-kings" as American or world history has ever seen. In The Founding Fathers Reconsidered, R. B. Bernstein reveals Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Adams, ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Black Trials

    Citizenship from the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste

    by Mark S. Weiner ...
    From a brilliant young legal scholar comes this sweeping history of American ideas of belonging and citizenship, told through the stories of fourteen legal cases that helped to shape our nation.Spanning three centuries, Black Trials details the legal challenges and struggles that helped define the ever-shifting identity of blacks in America. From the well-known cases of Plessy v. Ferguson and the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • A Well-Regulated Militia : The Founding Fathers And The Origins Of Gun Control In America

    by Saul Cornell ...
    Americans are deeply divided over the Second Amendment. Some passionately assert that the Amendment protects an individual's right to own guns. Others, that it does no more than protect the right of states to maintain militias. Now, in the first and only comprehensive history of this bitter controversy, Saul Cornell proves conclusively that both sides are wrong. Cornell, a leading ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • A Tolerable Anarchy

    by Jedediah Purdy ...
    In A Tolerable Anarchy, Jedediah Purdy traces the history of the American understanding of freedom, an ideal that has inspired the country’s best—and worst—moments, from independence and emancipation to war and economic uncertainty. Working from portraits of famous American lives, like Frederick Douglas and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Purdy asks crucial questions about our relationship to liberty: Does ... Read more

    $5.99 USD