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  • - The First Great Depression
    av Andrew H. Browning
    717

    Tells the story of the first nation-wide economic collapse to strike the US. The Panic introduced Americans to the new phenomenon of boom and bust, changed the country's attitudes towards wealth and poverty, spurred the political movement that became Jacksonian Democracy, and helped create the sectional divide that would lead to the Civil War.

  • - Congress Debates the Missouri Crisis, 1819-1821
     
    665,-

    The issue of what would come to be known as the Missouri Crisis tested the still young American republic and, some four decades later, would all but rend it asunder. This collection of essays engages the intersections of history and constitutional law, and is certain to find eager readers among historians, legal scholars, and political scientists.

  • - The Missouri Crisis at 200, Volume I, Western Slavery, National Impasse
     
    656,-

    Many of the original essays in this volume began as papers presented at an international conference on Constitutional Democracy. Contributors reassess and add to historians' understanding of the full scope of the causes and consequences of what came to be known as the Missouri Crisis, on a regional and national basis.

  • av William T. Horner & James W. Endersby
    466 - 622,-

    80 years ago, Lloyd Gaines's application to the University of Missouri law school was denied based on his race. Gaines and the NAACP challenged the university's decision. This is the first book to focus entirely on the Gaines case and the vital role played by the NAACP and its lawyers, including Charles Houston, known as "the man who killed Jim Crow".

  • - An Intellectual History
    av Carli N. Conklin
    366,-

    Considers happiness across a variety of intellectual traditions, and focuses on its usage in two key legal texts of the Founding Era: Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England and the Declaration. In so doing, Carli Conklin makes several contributions to the fields of early American intellectual and legal history.

  • - The Missouri Crisis at 200, Volume II: "The Missouri Question" and Its Answers
    av Jeffrey L. Pasley
    708,-

    Drawn from the of participants in two landmark conferences, those who contributed original essays to this second of two volumes answer the Missouri 'Question', in bold fashion, challenging assumptions both old and new in the long historiography by approaching the event on its own terms.

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