Download or read book The Common Law in Colonial America written by William E. Nelson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William E. Nelson's first volume of the four-volume The Common Law of Colonial America (2008) established a new benchmark for study of colonial era legal history. Drawing from both a rich archival base and existing scholarship on the topic, the first volume demonstrated how the legal systems of Britain's thirteen North American colonies-each of which had unique economies, political structures, and religious institutions -slowly converged into a common law order that differed substantially from English common law. The first volume focused on how the legal systems of the Chesapeake colonies--Virginia and Maryland--contrasted with those of the New England colonies and traced these dissimilarities from the initial settlement of America until approximately 1660. In this new volume, Nelson brings the discussion forward, covering the years from 1660, which saw the Restoration of the British monarchy, to 1730. In particular, he analyzes the impact that an increasingly powerful British government had on the evolution of the common law in the New World. As the reach of the Crown extended, Britain imposed far more restrictions than before on the new colonies it had chartered in the Carolinas and the middle Atlantic region. The government's intent was to ensure that colonies' laws would align more tightly with British law. Nelson examines how the newfound coherence in British colonial policy led these new colonies to develop common law systems that corresponded more closely with one another, eliminating much of the variation that socio-economic differences had created in the earliest colonies. As this volume reveals, these trends in governance ultimately resulted in a tension between top-down pressures from Britain for a more uniform system of laws and bottom-up pressures from colonists to develop their own common law norms and preserve their own distinctive societies. Authoritative and deeply researched, the volumes in The Common Law of Colonial America will become the foundational resource for anyone interested the history of American law before the Revolution.
Download or read book Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe s Tales from the Grand Tour 1890 1910 written by Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012-11-26 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The international adventures of a southern widow turned patron of historical discovery Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe's Tales from the Grand Tour, 1890-1910 is a travelogue of captivating episodes in exotic lands as experienced by an intrepid American aristocrat and her son at the dawn of the twentieth century. A member of the prominent Sinkler family of Charleston and Philadelphia, Elizabeth "Lizzie" Sinkler married into Philadelphia's wealthy Coxe family in 1870. Widowed just three years later, she dedicated herself to a lifelong pursuit of philanthropy, intellectual endeavor, and extensive travel. Heeding the call of their dauntless adventuresome spirits, Lizzie and her son, Eckley, set sail in 1890 on a series of odysseys that took them from the United States to Cairo, Luxor, Khartoum, Algiers, Istanbul, Naples, Vichy, and Athens. The Coxes not only visited the sites and monuments of ancient civilizations but also participated in digs, funded entire expeditions, and ultimately subsidized the creation of the Coxe Wing of Ancient History at the University of Pennsylvania Museum. A prolific correspondent, Lizzie conscientiously recorded her adventures abroad in lively prose that captures the surreal exhilarations and harsh realities of traversing the known and barely known worlds of Africa and the Middle East. She journeyed through foreign lands with various nieces in tow to expose them to the educational and social benefits of the Grand Tour. Her letters and recollections are complemented by numerous photographs and several original watercolor paintings.
Download or read book Wilson Library Bulletin written by Stanley Kunitz and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Reference Books Annual written by Bohdan S. Wynar and published by . This book was released on 1978-04 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1970- issued in 2 vols.: v. 1, General reference, social sciences, history, economics, business; v. 2, Fine arts, humanities, science and engineering.
Download or read book Catastrophic Success written by Alexander B. Downes and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Catastrophic Success, Alexander B. Downes compiles all instances of regime change around the world over the past two centuries. Drawing on this impressive data set, Downes shows that regime change increases the likelihood of civil war and violent leader removal in target states and fails to reduce the probability of conflict between intervening states and their targets. As Downes demonstrates, when a state confronts an obstinate or dangerous adversary, the lure of toppling its government and establishing a friendly administration is strong. The historical record, however, shows that foreign-imposed regime change is, in the long term, neither cheap, easy, nor consistently successful. The strategic impulse to forcibly oust antagonistic or non-compliant regimes overlooks two key facts. First, the act of overthrowing a foreign government sometimes causes its military to disintegrate, sending thousands of armed men into the countryside where they often wage an insurgency against the intervener. Second, externally-imposed leaders face a domestic audience in addition to an external one, and the two typically want different things. These divergent preferences place imposed leaders in a quandary: taking actions that please one invariably alienates the other. Regime change thus drives a wedge between external patrons and their domestic protégés or between protégés and their people. Catastrophic Success provides sober counsel for leaders and diplomats. Regime change may appear an expeditious solution, but states are usually better off relying on other tools of influence, such as diplomacy. Regime change, Downes urges, should be reserved for exceptional cases. Interveners must recognize that, absent a rare set of promising preconditions, regime change often instigates a new period of uncertainty and conflict that impedes their interests from being realized.
Download or read book Reference Sources written by Linda Mark and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Catalog of Printed Books of the Folger Shakespeare Library Washington D C written by Folger Shakespeare Library and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Current Publications in Legal and Related Fields written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Writer s Ultimate Research Guide written by Ellen Metter and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With hundreds of listings of books and databases, this book saves writers research time and frustration by pointing them straight to the information they need to create better, more accurate fiction and nonfiction.
Download or read book Best Reference Books 1970 1980 written by Susan Holte and published by Littleton, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 1981 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Britain s Elusive Empire in the Middle East 1900 1921 written by William J. Olson and published by Scholarly Title. This book was released on 1982 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sources of Information for Historical Research written by Thomas P. Slavens and published by Neal-Schuman Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference work is designed to help students, researchers, general readers and librarians retrieve historical information. The organisation of the book is geographic, by genre, and by type of holding. All the works listed (mostly in English) are annotated and arranged by LC classification.
Download or read book Introduction to Public Services for Library Technicians written by Marty Bloomberg and published by Littleton, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 1981 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin Canadian Library Association written by Canadian Library Association and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
