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Author : G. Edward White
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,87 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Law
ISBN : 0199766002
A 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 : Linda Greenhouse
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 49,35 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Judicial process
ISBN : 0197689469
"The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction draws on the Court's history and its written and unwritten rules to show how it operates in the twenty-first century. Today's Supreme Court, housed in a majestic building on Capitol Hill, bears little resemblance to the institution launched by the Framers of the Constitution and was originally seen as the weakest of the three branches of government. Over the next 200 years, the Court put the independence the Framers gave it to use and now largely defines itself, exercising so much power over how Americans live that some have begun to question whether the Court has gone too far. How do cases reach the Supreme Court? What features have other courts around the world taken from the Supreme Court, and what have they left?"--
Author : John Arnold
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 39,66 MB
Release : 2000-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 019285352X
Starting 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 : Susan Ware
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 26,16 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0199328331
What does American history look like with women at the center of the story? From Pocahantas to military women serving in the Iraqi war, this Very Short Introduction chronicles the contributions that women have made to the American experience from a multicultural perspective that emphasizes how gender shapes women's--and men's--lives.
Author : David J. Bodenhamer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 35,72 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 0195378326
The 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 : Walter A. Friedman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 43,6 MB
Release : 2020-04-15
Category :
ISBN : 0190622474
By the early twentieth century, it became common to describe the United States as a "business civilization." President Coolidge in 1925 said, "The chief business of the American people is business." More recently, historian Sven Beckert characterized Henry Ford's massive manufactory as the embodiment of America: "While Athens had its Parthenon and Rome its Colosseum, the United States had its River Rouge Factory in Detroit..." How did business come to assume such power and cultural centrality in America? This volume explores the variety of business enterprise in the United States and analyzes its presence in the country's economy, its evolution over time, and its meaning in society. It introduces readers to formative business leaders (including Elbert Gary, Harlow Curtice, and Mary Kay Ash), leading firms (Mellon Bank, National Cash Register, Xerox), and fiction about business people (The Octopus, Babbitt, The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit). It also discusses Alfred Chandler, Joseph Schumpeter, Mira Wilkins, and others who made significant contributions to understanding of America's business history. This VSI pursues its three central themes - the evolution, scale, and culture of American business - in a chronological framework stretching from the American Revolution to today. The first theme is evolution: How has U.S. business evolved over time? How have American companies competed with one another and with foreign firms? Why have ideas about strategy and management changed? Why did business people in the mid-twentieth century celebrate an "organizational" culture promising long-term employment in the same company, while a few decades later entrepreneurship was prized? Second is scale: Why did business assume such enormous scale in the United States? Was the rise of gigantic corporations due to the industriousness of its population, or natural resources, or government policies? And third, culture: What are the characteristics of a "business civilization"? How have opinions on the meaning of business changed? In the late nineteenth century, Andrew Carnegie believed that America's numerous enterprises represented an exuberant "triumph of democracy." After World War II, however, sociologist William H. Whyte saw business culture as stultifying, and historian Richard Hofstadter wrote, "Once great men created fortunes; today a great system creates fortunate men." How did changes in the nature of business affect popular views? Walter A. Friedman provides the long view of these important developments.
Author : Kermit L. Hall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 19,79 MB
Release : 1991
Category :
ISBN : 9780195070231
Author : Kermit L. Hall
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 41,4 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Law
ISBN :
Author : George P. Fletcher
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 36,52 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780195167238
Resource added for the Paralegal program 101101.
Author : Kermit L. Hall
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 18,76 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190253264
When the first edition of American Legal History: Case and Materials appeared over twenty-five years ago, American legal history was a nascent scholarly field. Today, the subject of legal history has flooded law, history, and political science departments across American universities. Legalhistory appears in the scholarship of social, economic, political, and diplomatic historians, as well as becoming an integral part of gender, immigration, race, slavery, and labor studies. More than ever before, legal history has become a part of our collective legal culture, as well as ourscholarly world.This text provides a comprehensive selection of the most important documents in American legal history, from America's colonial origins to the present. Devoting special attention to the interaction of social and legal change, American Legal History: Cases and Materials shows how legal ideasdeveloped in tandem with specific historical events, while also revealing America's rich and unique legal culture. The book also details the realtionship between the evolution of American law and the development of American society, politics, and economy.