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Truth and Privilege(Paperback / softback)
Libel Law in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, 1820-1840
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08/08/2024
This fascinating study analyzes the evolution of libel law in Nova Scotia and Massachusetts, in the crucible of conflicts over democratic institution-building, gender roles, slavery and other religi...
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Dreadful Word(Paperback / softback)
Speech Crime and Polite Gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690–1776
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08/08/2024
The Dreadful Word describes how the criminalization, prosecution, and punishment of speech offenses in eighteenth-century Massachusetts helped to establish and legitimate a cultural regime of polite...
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Nothing More than Freedom(Hardback)
The Failure of Abolition in American Law
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30/04/2023
After examining more than 700 lawsuits decided by the supreme courts of former slave states, Giuliana Perrone asserts that slavery remained actionable in American law well after its ostensible demis...
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Unraveling Abolition(Paperback / softback)
Legal Culture and Slave Emancipation in Colombia
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29/08/2024
This book focuses on the legal origins of the antislavery movement in Colombia, revealing how slaves, former slaves, magistrates and legal workers called for freedom and citizenship during trials an...
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Laws of Alfred(Paperback / softback)
The Domboc and the Making of Anglo-Saxon Law
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07/12/2023
King Alfred''s domboc (''book of laws''), the most ambitious legal text of the Anglo-Saxon period, combines translated biblical laws with Alfred''s own ordinances and those of the early West-Saxon K...
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Tying the Knot(Paperback / softback)
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31/03/2023
Tying the Knot is for anyone interested in how couples have married from 1836 to the present day. It shows how the legal options have evolved and how social practices have changed, and demonstrates ...
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