Category - History
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Denial: Holocaust History on Trial
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Now a major motion picture starring Rachel Weisz, Timothy Spall and Tom Wilkinson. “A compelling book: memoir and courtroom drama, a work of his...
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Yamashita's Ghost: War Crimes, MacArthur's Justice, and Command Accountability
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /"I don't blame my executioners. I will pray God bless them."So said General Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japan's most accomplished military commander, as ...
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The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /"Absorbing . . . Riveting . . . A legal thriller."—Kevin Boyle, The New York Times Book ReviewFollowing the Civil War, Colfax, Louisiana, was a t...
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The Rule of Laws: A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /From ancient Mesopotamia to today, the epic story of how humans have used laws to forge civilizations Rulers throughout history have used laws ...
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Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692 / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /The Salem witch hunt of 1692 is among the most infamous events in early American history; however, it was not the only such episode to occur in N...
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The London Hanged: Crime And Civil Society In The Eighteenth Century
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Peter Linebaugh’s groundbreaking history has become an inescapable part of any understanding of the rise of capitalism. In eighteenth-century Lon...
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Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney: Slavery, Secession, and the President's War Powers
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The clashes between President Abraham Lincoln and Chief Justice Roger B. Taney over slavery, secession, and the president's constitutional war po...
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The Great Decision: Jefferson, Adams, Marshall, and the Battle for the Supreme Court
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /In 1800, the United States teetered on the brink of a second revolution. The presidential election between Adams and Jefferson was a bitterly con...
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The Last Mission of the Wham Bam Boys: Courage, Tragedy, and Justice in World War II
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99Original price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Before the famed Nuremberg Tribunal, there was Rüsselsheim, a small German town, where ordinary civilians were tried in the first War Crimes Tria...
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Ilse Koch on Trial: Making the "Bitch of Buchenwald"
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /An authoritative reassessment of one of the Third Reich’s most notorious war criminals, whose alleged sexual barbarism made her a convenient scap...
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The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • “A taut page-turner with all the hallmarks of a good historical thriller.”—Orlando Senti...
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The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials: A Personal Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /“A masterly work of military and judicial history.” —New York Times. Telford Taylor’s book is a defining piece of World War II literature, an eng...
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Roman Law and the Legal World of the Romans
PaperbackOriginal price $38.99 - Original price $38.99Original price $38.99$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /In this book, Andrew Riggsby offers a survey of the main areas of Roman law, both substantive and procedural, and how the legal world interacted ...
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Conquest by Law: How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of Their Lands / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $43.99 - Original price $43.99Original price $43.99$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /John Marshall's landmark 1823 decision in Johnson v. M'Intosh gave the European sovereigns who "discovered" North America rights to the land, con...
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Early Cold War Spies: The Espionage Trials that Shaped American Politics
PaperbackOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Communism was never a popular ideology in America, but the vehemence of American anticommunism varied from passive disdain in the 1920s to ferven...
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How the Court Became Supreme: The Origins of American Juristocracy
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Over the course of its history, the United States Supreme Court has emerged as the most powerful judiciary unit the world has ever seen. Paul D. Mo...
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Everyday Justice: A Legal Aid Story
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The Legal Aid Society's mission is to advance, defend, and enforce the legal rights of low-income and otherwise vulnerable people in order to secur...
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Bridging Revolutions: The Lives of Chief Justices Richmond Pearson and John Belton O'Neall
HardcoverOriginal price $62.95 - Original price $62.95Original price $62.95$74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /Bridging Revolutions examines the lives of North Carolina chief justice Richmond Pearson (1805-1878) and South Carolina chief justice John Belton O...
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Judgment and Mercy: The Turbulent Life and Times of the Judge Who Condemned the Rosenbergs
HardcoverOriginal price $35.95Original price $35.95 - Original price $35.95Original price $35.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /In Judgment and Mercy, Martin J. Siegel offers an insightful and compelling biography of Irving Robert Kaufman, the judge infamous for condemning J...
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By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /If the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn't lynching the law?In By Hands Now Known, Margaret A. Burnham, director of Northeaster...
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Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Justice in the Question of Palestine is often framed as a question of law. Yet none of the Israel-Palestinian conflict's most vexing challenges hav...
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The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /New York Times Editors' ChoiceWinner of the Bancroft PrizeWinner of the Francis Parkman Prize Winner of the Gotham Book PrizeWinner of the New York...
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By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /If the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn't lynching the law?In By Hands Now Known, Margaret A. Burnham, director of Northeaster...
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Roe: The History of a National Obsession
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The leading U.S. expert on abortion law charts the many meanings associated with Roe v. Wade during its fifty-year history "Ziegler sets a brisk p...
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