The Tree of Liberty: Colonial Era to World War II: 1 - Brossura

 
9780801856433: The Tree of Liberty: Colonial Era to World War II: 1

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From King Edward III's Treason Law of 1352 to the 1997 standoff between the Provisional Government of Texas and Federal authorities, these volumes bring together over 400 documentary sources, from statutes, regulations, and legal decisions to pamphlets, broadsides, diaries, and speeches, that show the nature of political discontent, rebellion, and militancy and power's reactions in American history. Thirteen sections address the colonial period, the Revolutionary War, suffrage, secession, labor rights, civil rights, the two world wars, as well as many more contemporary issues. The second volume's ISBN is 0-8018-5811-9; the two volumes are available separately for $24.95 each. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Nicholas N. Kittrie is the Edwin A. Mooers Scholar and professor of law at the American University Law School. He has served as counsel to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee and as president of the American Society of Criminology. His previous books include Crescent and Star: Arab-Israeli Perspectives on the Middle East Conflict, Sanctions, Sentencing, and Corrections, and The Right to be Different: Deviance and Enforced Therapy, which was published by Johns Hopkins. Eldon D. Wedlock, Jr., is professor of constitutional and criminal law at the University of South Carolina. He is author of The Emerging Rights of the Confined (with William S. McAninch), and has served as president of the American Civil Liberties Union of South Carolina.

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