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  • The Supreme Court Footnote

    A Surprising History

    Finalist, 2025 PROSE Awards: Legal Studies and CriminologyA history of the humble footnote and its impact on the highest court in the landIn May 2022, a seismic legal event occurred as the draft majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health was leaked. The majority aimed to eliminate constitutional protection for abortion. Amidst the fervor, an unnoticed detail emerged: over 140 footnotes ... Altre info

    17,88 €

  • Uncivil Warriors

    The Lawyers' Civil War

    di Peter Hoffer ...
    In the Civil War, the United States and the Confederate States of America engaged in combat to defend distinct legal regimes and the social order they embodied and protected. Depending on whose side's arguments one accepted, the Constitution either demanded the Union's continuance or allowed for its dissolution. After the war began, rival legal concepts of insurrection (a civil war within a nation ... Altre info

    17,88 €

  • Audiolibro

    Innovations Unplugged

    Surprising Inventions That Changed the Game

    di Kevin Hudson ...
    Narrato da Peter Hoffer ...

    Integrale

    1 ora 36 minuti

    The Great Emu War, which unfolded in Australia in 1932, stands as one of the most peculiar conflicts in history, pitting humans against a flightless bird. Following World War I, many Australian veterans were given land to farm in Western Australia. However, their efforts were thwarted by an unexpected adversary: the emu population. These large, flightless birds descended upon the newly cultivated ... Altre info

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  • Audiolibro

    Innovations Unplugged:

    Surprising Inventions That Changed the Game

    di Kevin Hudson ...
    Narrato da Peter Hoffer ...

    Integrale

    1 ora 36 minuti

    The Great Emu War, which unfolded in Australia in 1932, stands as one of the most peculiar conflicts in history, pitting humans against a flightless bird. Following World War I, many Australian veterans were given land to farm in Western Australia. However, their efforts were thwarted by an unexpected adversary: the emu population. These large, flightless birds descended upon the newly cultivated ... Altre info

    3,52 € o Gratuito con Kobo Plus

  • Three Speeches that Saved the Union

    Clay, Calhoun, Webster, and the Crisis of 1850

    How three skilled orators navigated a polarized political landscapeFor the generation of politicians who inherited the Republic and the Union, the opening months of 1850 were a desperate time filled with increasing animosity between free and slave state leaders over issues of the expansion of slavery. Following the end of the Mexican-American War and the subsequent expansion of American territory ... Altre info

    19,54 €

  • Clio among the Muses

    Essays on History and the Humanities

    History helps us understand change, provides clues to our own identity, and hones our moral sense. But history is not a stand-alone discipline. Indeed, its own history is incomplete without recognition of its debt to its companions in the humane and social sciences. In Clio among the Muses, noted historiographer Peter Charles Hoffer relates the story of this remarkable collaboration. Hoffer traces ... Altre info

    13,61 € o Gratuito con Kobo Plus

  • Audiolibro

    The Federal Courts

    An Essential History

    Integrale

    22 ore 50 minuti

    There are moments in American history when all eyes are focused on a federal court: when its bench speaks for millions of Americans, and when its decision changes the course of history. More often, the story of the federal judiciary is simply a tale of hard work: of finding order in the chaotic system of state and federal law, local custom, and contentious lawyering. The Federal Courts is a story ... Altre info

    22,31 €

  • The Brave New World

    A History of Early America

    The distinguished historian "does a remarkable job" with this lively and comprehensive textbook—now in a new, expanded edition (Daniel P. Kotzin, Teaching History).The Brave New World covers the span of early American history, from 30,000 years before Europeans ever landed on North American shores to creation of the new nation. With its exploration of the places and peoples of early America, this ... Altre info

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  • The Free Press Crisis of 1800

    Thomas Cooper's Trial for Seditious Libel

    Serie series Landmark Law Cases and American Society
    The far-reaching Sedition Act of 1798 was introduced by Federalists to suppress Republican support of French revolutionaries and imposed fines and imprisonment “if any person shall write, print, utter or publish . . . scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States.” Such a broadly and loosely defined offense challenged the freedom of the American press and ... Altre info

    22,45 €

  • The Brave New World

    A History of Early America

    A lively synthesis of early American history, now in its third edition.The Brave New World covers the entire span of early American history, from 30,000 years before Europeans landed on North American shores to the Revolutionary War. With its exploration of the places and peoples of early America, this comprehensive new edition of a classic textbook brings together the most recent scholarship on ... Altre info

    31,09 €

  • The Supreme Court

    An Essential History, Second Edition

    For more than two centuries, the U.S. Supreme Court has provided a battleground for nearly every controversial issue in our nation’s history. Now a veteran team of talented historians—including the editors of the acclaimed Landmark Law Cases and American Society series—have updated the most readable, astute single-volume history of this venerated institution with a new chapter on the Roberts Court ... Altre info

    25,05 €

  • Prelude to Revolution

    The Salem Gunpowder Raid of 1775

    Serie series Witness to History
    "A fine study . . . by a prolific scholar who adeptly restores the Salem Gunpowder Raid to its rightful place in the history of the American Revolution." — New England QuarterlyOn April 19, 1775, British raids on Lexington Green and Concord Bridge made history, but it was an episode nearly two months earlier in Salem, Massachusetts, that set the stage for the hostilities. Peter Charles Hoffer has ... Altre info

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