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  • Marriage, Law and Gender in Revolutionary China, 1940–1960

    by Xiaoping Cong ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China
    Xiaoping Cong examines the social and cultural significance of Chinese revolutionary legal practice in the construction of marriage and gender relations. Her book is an empirically rich investigation of the ways in which a 1943 legal dispute over an arranged marriage in a Chinese village became a legal, political and cultural exemplar on the national stage. This conceptually groundbreaking study ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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  • The Last Days of Old Beijing

    Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed

    by Michael Meyer ...
    Journalist Michael Meyer has spent his adult life in China, first in a small village as a Peace Corps volunteer, the last decade in Beijing--where he has witnessed the extraordinary transformation the country has experienced in that time. For the past two years he has been completely immersed in the ancient city, living on one of its famed hutong in a century-old courtyard home he shares with ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • In Search of the Ethical Lawyer

    Stories from the Canadian Legal Profession

    Edited by Adam Dodek, Alice Woolley ...
    Series series Law and Society
    What options did Paul Bernardo’s lawyer have when his client directed him to retrieve hidden evidence? Where would David Milgaard be today if a lawyer hadn’t doggedly challenged his murder conviction? And what should a defence lawyer do when told her client is a danger to the public?In this equally inspiring and troubling book, leading Canadian legal academics and practising lawyers draw on real ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Cultural Revolution on Trial

    Mao and the Gang of Four

    by Alexander C. Cook ...
    The trial of Cultural Revolution leaders, including Mao's widow and her Gang of Four, was the signal event in China's post-Mao transition. In its wake, Chinese socialism emerged from the rubble of the Cultural Revolution to create the China that we know today. This spectacular show trial was a curious example of transitional justice, marking a break from the trauma of the past, a shift to the ... Read more

    $34.99 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

  • Everyday Injustice

    Latino Professionals and Racism

    by Maria Chávez ...
    Series series Perspectives on a Multiracial America
    As members of the fastest-growing demographic group in America, Latinos are increasingly represented in the professional class, but they continue to face significant racism. Everyday Injustice introduces readers to the challenges facing Latino professionals today.Examining the experiences of many of the most privileged members of the largest racial and ethnic community in the United States, Maria ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • After Roe

    The Lost History of the Abortion Debate

    by Mary Ziegler ...
    Forty years after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision legalizing abortion, Roe v. Wade continues to make headlines. After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate cuts through the myths and misunderstandings to present a clear-eyed account of cultural and political responses to the landmark 1973 ruling in the decade that followed. The grassroots activists who shaped the discussion ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • The Sole Spokesman

    Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan

    by Ayesha Jalal ...
    Series Book 31 - Cambridge South Asian Studies
    In 1940 the All-India Muslim League orchestrated the demand for independent Muslim states in India. Seven years later Pakistan was created amidst a communal holocaust of unprecedented proportions. Concentrating on the All-India Muslim League and its leader, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, The Sole Spokesman assesses the role of religious communalism and provincialism in shaping the movement for Pakistan. ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Feminist Legal History

    Essays on Women and Law

    by Tracy A Thomas, Tracey Jean Boisseau ...
    Attuned to the social contexts within which laws are created, feminist lawyers, historians, and activists have long recognized the discontinuities and contradictions that lie at the heart of efforts to transform the law in ways that fully serve women's interests. At its core, the nascent field of feminist legal history is driven by a commitment to uncover women's legal agency and how women, both ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hindu Family and the Emergence of Modern India

    Law, Citizenship and Community

    by Eleanor Newbigin ...
    Series Book 22 - Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society
    Between 1955 and 1956 the Government of India passed four Hindu Law Acts to reform and codify Hindu family law. Scholars have understood these acts as a response to growing concern about women's rights but, in a powerful re-reading of their history, this book traces the origins of the Hindu law reform project to changes in the political-economy of late colonial rule. The Hindu Family and the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • A Sea of Debt

    Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780–1950

    by Fahad Ahmad Bishara ...
    Series series Asian Connections
    In this innovative legal history of economic life in the Western Indian Ocean, Bishara examines the transformations of Islamic law and Islamicate commercial practices during the emergence of modern capitalism in the region. In this time of expanding commercial activity, a mélange of Arab, Indian, Swahili and Baloch merchants, planters, jurists, judges, soldiers and seamen forged the frontiers of a ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • Men to Devils, Devils to Men

    by Barak Kushner ...
    The Japanese Army committed numerous atrocities during its pitiless campaigns in China from 1931 to 1945. Focusing on the trials of Japanese war criminals, Barak Kushner analyzes the political maneuvering and propagandizing in both China and Japan that would roil East Asian relations throughout the Cold War, with repercussions still felt today. ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD