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Inventing American Exceptionalism
A highly engaging account of the developments not only legal, but also socioeconomic, political, and cultural that gave rise to Americans distinctively lawyer-driven legal culture When Americans imagine their legal system, it is the adversarial trial dominated by dueling larger-than-life lawyers undertaking grand public performances that first comes to mind. But as award-winning author Amalia Kessler reveals in this engrossing history, it was only in the turbulent decades before the Civil War that adversarialism became a defining American practice and ideology, displacing alternative, more judge-driven approaches to procedure. By drawing on a broad range of methods and sources and by recovering neglected influences (including from Europe) the author shows how the emergence of the American adversarial legal culture was a product not only of developments internal to law, but also of wider socioeconomic, political, and cultural debates over whether and how to undertake market regulation and pursue racial equality. As a result, adversarialism came to play a key role in defining American legal institutions and practices, as well as national identity.
Civilizing Torture
Pulitzer Prize Finalist Silver Gavel Award Finalist “A sobering history of how American communities and institutions have relied on torture in various forms since before the United States was founded.” —Los Angeles Times “That Americans as a people and a nation-state are violent is indisputable. That we are also torturers, domestically and internationally, is not so well established. The myth that we are not torturers will persist, but Civilizing Torture will remain a powerful antidote in confronting it.” —Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell “Remarkable...A searing analysis of America’s past that helps make sense of its bewildering pre...
El exilio republicano español en Cuba
¿Qué hubiera sido de España sin la sangría del exilio durante y después de la Guerra Civil? El estudio de la vida y la obra de los desterrados —considerados por los vencedores los «anti-España»— ayuda a imaginarnos una respuesta. En realidad, como ha escrito el historiador Enrique Moradiellos, España tardó mucho en recuperarse de esa «hemorragia humana», esa forzosa ausencia de cerebros y de brazos. La recuperación de la memoria de los exiliados —y de la República en el exilio— es una parte importante de la reciente historiografía española. Pero de entre todos los «exilios» estudiados —el europeo, el mexicano, el del interior— quizás sea el exilio en Cuba el qu...
Jueces, criminalidad y control social en la ciudad de México a finales del siglo XVIII
Desde mediados del siglo XVIII, las dimensiones de la ciudad de México y su creciente población se constituyeron en un serio problema para las autoridades capitalinas. Estas circunstancias desencadenaron un preocupante incremento de la criminalidad, de manera que los virreyes pronto se vieron en la necesidad que tomar medidas para atajar “los robos, muertes y otros delitos… por los muchos ladrones y facinerosos que en ella había”. En 1782, el virrey Martín de Mayorga dividió la ciudad en 8 cuarteles mayores -subdivididos en 32 menores- con la finalidad de restablecer el orden público y ejercer un control más directo sobre la población mediante el aumento de las rondas nocturnas...
2001
Annually published since 1930, the International bibliography of Historical Sciences (IBOHS) is an international bibliography of the most important historical monographs and periodical articles published throughout the world, which deal with history from the earliest to the most recent times. The works are arranged systematically according to period, region or historical discipline, and within this classification alphabetically. The bibliography contains a geographical index and indexes of persons and authors.
