Legal history books

To Share, Not Surrender presents multiple views and lived experience of the treaty-making process and its repercussions...  Read More >>

This cutting-edge book facilitates debate amongst scholars in law, humanities and social sciences, where comparative...  Read More >>

Infanticide examines medical expert evidence in infanticide cases, focusing specifically on the shifting notion...  Read More >>

In medieval England, a defendant who refused to plead to a criminal indictment was sentenced to peine forte et dure...  Read More >>

The Daily Plebiscite offers a multi-faceted analysis of Canada's national unity crisis from the perspective of someone...  Read More >>

There was a truly global revolution that reflected a Great Divide between ancient and new legal regimes. The volume...  Read More >>

Tennessee Supreme Court decisions relating to the institution of slavery, enslaved or free persons of color, from...  Read More >>

Medieval legal and political thought encompasses the period from approximately 500 CE to 1500 CE. The term “Medieval”...  Read More >>

""A history of the entwinement of everyday police and caste authority in the colonial and postcolonial Tamil countryside...  Read More >>

This book looks at how Islamic law was practiced in Russia from the conquest of the empire's first Muslim territories...  Read More >>

Bringing together a team of international experts from different subject areas including law, history, archaeology...  Read More >>

This book shows how political and administrative forces shaped the way justice was applied in medieval Egypt. It...  Read More >>

This valuable compilation of English laws from the tenth to the eleventh century is a companion to Frederick Attenborough's...  Read More >>

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"Im Buch Deuteronomium kommt Mose mehrmals auf die Ereignisse am Berg Horeb zu sprechen. Wahrend in Dtn 4; 5 Gottes...  Read More >>

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State and Family in China examines the intersection of politics and intergenerational family relations in China...  Read More >>

""Fifty years after President Richard Nixon declared a ""War on Drugs,"" leading scholars examine how drug war policies...  Read More >>

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Juristen streiten standig uber Methodenfragen, zu denen die Methodenlehre nichts zu sagen hat: diese arbeitet sich...  Read More >>

Ein quellennahes Erklärungsmodel zu einer Frage, die die Forschung zum römischen Recht seit Langem bewegt  Read More >>

This book is a critical summary and exegesis of the work of Nicole Rafter. It introduces Rafter’s key works and...  Read More >>

This book is intended for those in the humanities seeking a legal context for writing about rape in early modern...  Read More >>

Written by one of early America's most eminent historians, this book masterfully discusses the debates over constitutionalism...  Read More >>