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  • For God, King, and People

    Forging Commonwealth Bonds in Renaissance Virginia

    by Alexander B. Haskell ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    By recovering a largely forgotten English Renaissance mindset that regarded sovereignty and Providence as being fundamentally entwined, Alexander Haskell reconnects concepts historians had before treated as separate categories and argues that the first English planters in Virginia operated within a deeply providential age rather than an era of early modern entrepreneurialism. These men did not ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • Escaping Salem

    The Other Witch Hunt of 1692

    by Richard Godbeer ...
    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

    $23.99 CAD

  • Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction

    by Andrew Clapham ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Today it is usually not long before a problem gets expressed as a human rights issue. An appeal to human rights in the face of injustice can be a heartfelt and morally justified demand for some, while for others it remains merely an empty slogan. Taking an international perspective and focusing on highly topical issues such as torture, arbitrary detention, privacy, health and discrimination, this ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Remember the Alamo

    by Amelia E. Barr ...
    What, are you stepping westward? Yea. * * * * * Yet who would stop or fear to advance, Though home or shelter there was none, With such a sky to lead him on!" - WORDSWORTH. ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • From Chicaza to Chickasaw

    The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mississippian World, 1540-1715

    by Robbie Ethridge ...
    In this sweeping regional history, anthropologist Robbie Ethridge traces the metamorphosis of the Native South from first contact in 1540 to the dawn of the eighteenth century, when indigenous people no longer lived in a purely Indian world but rather on the edge of an expanding European empire. Using a framework that Ethridge calls the “Mississippian shatter zone” to explicate these tumultuous ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Freedom Bound

    Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580–1865

    by Christopher Tomlins ...
    Freedom Bound is about the origins of modern America - a history of colonizing, work and civic identity from the beginnings of English presence on the mainland until the Civil War. It is a history of migrants and migrations, of colonizers and colonized, of households and servitude and slavery, and of the freedom all craved and some found. Above all it is a history of the law that framed the entire ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Witches, Wife Beaters, and Whores

    Common Law and Common Folk in Early America

    by Elaine Forman Crane ...
    The early American legal system permeated the lives of colonists and reflected their sense of what was right and wrong, honorable and dishonorable, moral and immoral. In a compelling book full of the extraordinary stories of ordinary people, Elaine Forman Crane reveals the ways in which early Americans clashed with or conformed to the social norms established by the law. As trials throughout the ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Constitutional Origins of the American Revolution

    by Jack P. Greene ...
    Series series New Histories of American Law
    Using the British Empire as a case study, this succinct study argues that the establishment of overseas settlements in America created a problem of constitutional organization. The failure to resolve the resulting tensions led to the thirteen continental colonies seceding from the empire in 1776. Challenging those historians who have assumed that the British had the law on their side during the ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • A Reforming People

    by David D. Hall ...
    A revelatory account of the aspirations and accomplishments of the people who founded the New England colonies, comparing the reforms they enacted with those attempted in England during the period of the English Revolution.Distinguished historian David D. Hall looks afresh at how the colonists set up churches, civil governments, and methods for distributing land. Bringing with them a deep fear of ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Pen and Ink Witchcraft

    Treaties and Treaty Making in American Indian History

    by Colin G. Calloway ...
    Indian peoples made some four hundred treaties with the United States between the American Revolution and 1871, when Congress prohibited them. They signed nine treaties with the Confederacy, as well as countless others over the centuries with Spain, France, Britain, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, Canada, and even Russia, not to mention individual colonies and states. In retrospect, the treaties ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Law and Custom in Korea

    Comparative Legal History

    by Marie Seong-Hak Kim ...
    This book sets forth the evolution of Korea's law and legal system from the Chosǒn dynasty through the colonial and postcolonial modern periods. This is the first book in English that comprehensively studies Korean legal history in comparison with European legal history, with particular emphasis on customary law. Korea's passage to Romano-German civil law under Japanese rule marked a drastic ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • The Common Law in Colonial America

    Volume I: The Chesapeake and New England 1607-1660

    by William E. Nelson ...
    Drawing on groundbreaking and overwhelmingly extensive research into local court records, The Common Law in Colonial America proposes a "new beginning" in the study of colonial legal history, as it charts the course of the common law in Early America, to reveal how the models of law that emerged differed drastically from that of the English common law. In this first volume, Nelson explores how the ... Read more

    $65.59 CAD