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Barons of the Sea
“A fascinating, fast-paced history…full of remarkable characters and incredible stories” about the nineteenth-century American dynasties who battled for dominance of the tea and opium trades (Nathaniel Philbrick, National Book Award–winning author of In the Heart of the Sea). There was a time, back when the United States was young and the robber barons were just starting to come into their own, when fortunes were made and lost importing luxury goods from China. It was a secretive, glamorous, often brutal business—one where teas and silks and porcelain were purchased with profits from the opium trade. But the journey by sea to New York from Canton could take six agonizing months, an...
The North American Review
Vols. 277-230, no. 2 include Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930.
Commodity & Propriety
Most people understand property as something that is owned, a means of creating individual wealth. But in Commodity & Propriety, Gregory S. Alexander uncovers in American legal writing a competing vision of property that has existed alongside the traditional conception. Property, Alexander argues, has also been understood as proprietary, a mechanism for creating and maintaining a properly ordered society. The real tradition in American legal thought about property can be discovered in the ongoing debate over the priority of the market versus the social good.
The Supreme Court and the Constitution
Beard, Charles A. The Supreme Court and the Constitution. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1912. vii, 127 pp. Reprinted 1999 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 98-50368. ISBN 1-886363-78-1. Cloth. $45. * A thorough analysis of the early history and development of judicial review, from 1787 through Marbury v. Madison. "A strong argument that the constitutional fathers intended to establish judicial review." Carr, The Supreme Court and Judicial Review 293. "The book is based on the most exhaustive examination which has so far been made of the expressed opinions of the men who were most responsible for the adoption of the United States Constitution." Col. L. Rev. 13:87 as cited in Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University 172. Chapters include "The Constitutional Convention of 1787 and Judicial Control," "John Marshall and the Fathers," and "Marbury v. Madison."
The Doctor and Student
Often cited authority on the foundations of law. Originally published: Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1874. xiii, 401 pp. Originally written in Latin in 1523, this work contains two dialogues between a doctor of divinity and a student of English law. It popularized canonist learning on the nature and object of law, the religious and moral standards of law, the foundations of the common law and issues regarding the jurisdiction of Parliament. A very important work in the development of equity, Doctor and Student appeared in numerous editions. An authority well into the eighteenth century, it influenced several legal writers, including Blackstone. ". . . surely the most remarkable book relat...
The Aryan Household
Hearn, William Edward. The Aryan Household Its Structure and its Development. An Introduction to Comparative Jurisprudence. London and New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1891. viii, 494 pp. Reprinted 2002 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-124-0. Cloth. $100. * Originally published in Melbourne in 1878, this is a reprint of the first Anglo-American edition. "Recommended by Pound for 'the legal institutions of Indo-European peoples.' Pound. Outlines [of Lectures on Jurisprudence]: 229." Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 108. Chapter titles include Law and Custom, The Law and Custom of Property, The Rise of Civil Jurisdiction.
The American Jurist
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