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Sovereignty, International Law, and the French Revolution
This book argues that the introduction of popular sovereignty as the basis for government in France facilitated a dramatic transformation in international law in the eighteenth century.
Almost Citizens
Tells the tragic story of Puerto Ricans who sought the post-Civil War regime of citizenship, rights, and statehood but instead received racist imperial governance.
The Science of Proof
An insightful analysis of the rise of forensic medicine in modern France and doctors' authority in the legal arena.
The First Modern Risk
Examines Europe's first significant national policies on social welfare in the late nineteenth century, which had major implications for state-society relations.
Truth and Privilege
A fascinating comparative history of the legal arguments and strategies used to regulate expression in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia.
The Dreadful Word
A fascinating study of how elite white men in eighteenth-century Massachusetts incorporated the ethos of politeness into the law of criminal speech.
Armed with Swords & Scales
Explores how local courtrooms have been a common feature of everyday life and culture since the eighteenth century.
Pain, Penance, and Protest
An examination of peine fort et dure, the coercive medieval punishment for defendants refusing to plead to criminal indictments.
Asylum Between Nations
Why some of the most vulnerable communities in Europe, from independent cities to new monarchies, welcomed refugees during the Age of Revolutions and prospered "Janet Polasky unearths an unappreciated history of the experience of asylum in Europe and the United States since the Age of the Democratic Revolutions. Facing squarely the destruction of asylum in our own time, she ends with a stunningly optimistic vision of a path toward its reconstruction."--Linda K. Kerber, author of No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies Driven from their homelands, refugees from ancient times to the present have sought asylum in worlds turned upside down. Theirs is an age-old story. So too are the solutions to th...
Nothing More than Freedom
Reveals that slavery has remained embedded in private law well after its ostensible demise.
