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Author: G. Edward White
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 0199766002
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA concise examination of the central role of legal decisions in shaping key social issues explores topics ranging from Native American affairs and slavery to business and home life as well as how criminal and civil offenses have been addressed in positive and negative ways. Original.
Author: John Arnold
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Published: 2000-02-24
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 019285352X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStarting with an examination of how historians work, this "Very Short Introduction" aims to explore history in a general, pithy, and accessible manner, rather than to delve into specific periods.
Author: Madeline Yuan-yin Hsu
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 0190219769
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title provides a narrative interpretation of key themes that emerge in the history of Asian migrations to North America, highlighting how Asian immigration has shaped the evolution of ideological and legal interpretations of America as a 'nation of immigrants'.
Author: David A. Gerber
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021-03-01
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 0197542441
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn updated, penetrating, and balanced analysis of one of the most contentious issues in America today, offering a historically informed portrait of immigration. Americans have come from every corner of the globe, and they have been brought together by a variety of historical processes--conquest, colonialism, the slave trade, territorial acquisition, and voluntary immigration. In this Very Short Introduction, historian David A. Gerber captures the histories of dozens of American ethnic groups over more than two centuries and reveals how American life has been formed in significant ways by immigration. He discusses the relationships between race and ethnicity in the life of these groups and in the formation of American society, as well as explaining how immigration policy and legislation have helped to form those relationships. Moreover, by highlighting the parallels that contemporary patterns of immigration and resettlement share with those of the past - which Americans now generally regard as having had positive outcomes - the book offers an optimistic portrait of current immigration that is at odds with much present-day opinion. Newly updated, this book speaks directly to the ongoing fears of immigration that have fueled the debate about both illegal immigration and the need for stronger immigration laws and a border wall.
Author: Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 0190622431
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLong before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of belief and thought in tow. From this foundation of expectation and experience, America and American thought grew in turn, enriched by the bounties of the Enlightenment, the philosophies of liberty and individuality, the tenets of religion, and the doctrines of republicanism and democracy. In engaging and accessible prose, Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen's introduction to American thought considers how notions about freedom and belonging, the market and morality - and even truth - have commanded generations of Americans and been the cause of fierce debate.
Author: Linda Greenhouse
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-02-13
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 0199930066
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor thirty years, Linda Greenhouse, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction, chronicled the activities of the justices as the Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times. In this concise volume, she draws on her deep knowledge of the court's history as well as of its written and unwritten rules to show the reader how the Supreme Court really works.
Author: David J. Bodenhamer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 0195378326
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe U.S. Constitution: A Very Short Introduction explores the major themes of American constitutional history --federalism, the balance of powers, property, representation, equality, and security -- and illustrates how the Constitution has served as a dynamic framework for legitimating power and advancing liberty.
Author: Paul S. Boyer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-08-16
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 0199911657
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume in Oxford's A Very Short Introduction series offers a concise, readable narrative of the vast span of American history, from the earliest human migrations to the early twenty-first century when the United States loomed as a global power and comprised a complex multi-cultural society of more than 300 million people. The narrative is organized around major interpretive themes, with facts and dates introduced as needed to illustrate these themes. The emphasis throughout is on clarity and accessibility to the interested non-specialist.
Author: George P. Fletcher
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 700
ISBN-13: 9780195167238
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Author: Lawrence M. Friedman
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2004-10-12
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0812972856
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout America’s history, our laws have been a reflection of who we are, of what we value, of who has control. They embody our society’s genetic code. In the masterful hands of the subject’s greatest living historian, the story of the evolution of our laws serves to lay bare the deciding struggles over power and justice that have shaped this country from its birth pangs to the present. Law in America is a supreme example of the historian’s art, its brevity a testament to the great elegance and wit of its composition.
