Heroes Rascals And The Law

Author : James L. Robertson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Law
ISBN : 1496819969

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Heroes, Rascals, and the Law by James L. Robertson Pdf

"James L. Robertson focuses on folk encountering their constitutions and laws, in their courthouses and country stores, and in their daily lives, animating otherwise dry and inaccessible parchments. Robertson begins at statehood and continues through war and depression, well into the 1940s. He tells of slaves petitioning for freedom, populist sentiments fueling abnegation of the rule of law, the state's many schemes for enticing Yankee capital to lift a people from poverty, and its sometimes tragic, always colorful romance with whiskey after the demise of national Prohibition. Each story is sprinkled with fascinating but heretofore unearthed facts and circumstances. Robertson delves into the prejudices and practices of the times, local landscapes, and daily life and its dependence on our social compact. He offers the unique perspective of a judge, lawyer, scholar, and history buff, each role having tempered the lessons of the others. He focuses on a people, enriching encounters most know little about. Tales of understanding and humanity covering 130 years of heroes, rascals, and ordinary folk--with a bundle of engaging surprises--leave the reader pretty sure there's nothing quite like Mississippi history told by a sage observer." Provided by publisher.

Author : James L. Robertson
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496819956

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Heroes, Rascals, and the Law by James L. Robertson Pdf

James L. Robertson focuses on folk encountering their constitutions and laws, in their courthouses and country stores, and in their daily lives, animating otherwise dry and inaccessible parchments. Robertson begins at statehood and continues through war and depression, well into the 1940s. He tells of slaves petitioning for freedom, populist sentiments fueling abnegation of the rule of law, the state’s many schemes for enticing Yankee capital to lift a people from poverty, and its sometimes tragic, always colorful romance with whiskey after the demise of national Prohibition. Each story is sprinkled with fascinating but heretofore unearthed facts and circumstances. Robertson delves into the prejudices and practices of the times, local landscapes, and daily life and its dependence on our social compact. He offers the unique perspective of a judge, lawyer, scholar, and history buff, each role having tempered the lessons of the others. He focuses on a people, enriching encounters most know little about. Tales of understanding and humanity covering 130 years of heroes, rascals, and ordinary folk—with a bundle of engaging surprises—leave the reader pretty sure there’s nothing quite like Mississippi history told by a sage observer.

Author : James L. Robertson
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496847119

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Rowdy Boundaries by James L. Robertson Pdf

Dwelling along the Mississippi River, the Tennessee state line, the Tenn-Tom Waterway, and the Gulf of Mexico are a trove of characters with fascinating lives and histories. In Rowdy Boundaries: True Mississippi Tales from Natchez to Noxubee, author James L. Robertson weaves these stories to reveal a tapestry of Mississippi’s border counties and the towns and people that occupy them. From his unique vantage as a former Mississippi Supreme Court justice and seasoned lawyer, he documents the legal, geographical, and biographical tales revealed during his journeys along and within the state lines. The volume features the true stories of musicians, authors, portrait painters, and football players, as well as political activists, educators, politicians, and judges. Also featured are tributes to noteworthy newspaper editors and columnists for their many contributions over the years. Robertson covers pivotal moments in Mississippi history, including the Mississippi Married Women’s Property Act of 1839, the development of Chinese culture in the Mississippi Delta, and 1964 Freedom Summer. He does not shy away from the tragedies of the past, discussing lynchings and murders that still haunt the state today. From ghost towns in Jefferson County to the Slugburger Festival in Corinth, stopping en route for a mint julep in Columbus, Robertson puts a human face on Mississippi history and tells a good yarn along the way.

Author : Lori Gruen,Justin Marceau
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108843584

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Carceral Logics by Lori Gruen,Justin Marceau Pdf

We incarcerate humans as a form of punishment and we cage animals for food, entertainment, and research. Are there lessons one site of carcerality can teach us about the other?

Author : Annette Trefzer
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-25
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781496839404

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Exposing Mississippi by Annette Trefzer Pdf

WINNER OF THE 2022 EUDORA WELTY PRIZE Internationally known as a writer, Eudora Welty has as well been spotlighted as a talented photographer. The prevalent idea remains that Welty simply took snapshots before she found her true calling as a renowned fiction writer. But who was Welty as a photographer? What did she see? How and why did she photograph? And what did Welty know about modern photography? In Exposing Mississippi: Eudora Welty's Photographic Reflections, Annette Trefzer elucidates Welty’s photographic vision and answers these questions by exploring her photographic archive and writings on photography. The photographs Welty took in the 1930s and ’40s frame her visual response to the cultural landscapes of the segregated South during the Depression. The photobook One Time, One Place, which was selected, curated, and shaped into a visual narrative by Welty herself, serves as a starting point and guide for the chapters on her spatial hermeneutic. The book is divided into sections by locations and offers how the framing of these areas reveals Welty’s radical commentary of the spaces her camera captured. There are over eighty images in Exposing Mississippi, including some never-before-seen archival photographs, and sections of the book draw on over three hundred more. The chapters on institutional, leisure, and memorial landscapes address how Welty’s photographs contribute to, reflect on, and intervene in customary visual constructions of the Depression-era South.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:HL4FRP

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The Washington Law Reporter by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Courts
ISBN : CORNELL:31924087669838

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The Daily Washington Law Reporter by Anonim Pdf

Vols. for 1902- include decisions of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and various other courts of the District of Columbia.

Author : Alexander Welsh
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400863297

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The Hero of the Waverley Novels by Alexander Welsh Pdf

One of the most influential works on Sir Walter Scott, The Hero of the Waverley Novels is a model for reconstructing ideas common at a given period in time. In this book Alexander Welsh draws upon the entire canon of Scott's fiction to demonstrate its bearing on property and the behavior prescribed for the propertied classes. Analyzing the "passive hero"--the protagonist who is acted upon by outside forces--he shows how Scott became such a powerful influence for nineteenth-century literature and history. Welsh has updated his book with an essay on history and revolution in Old Mortality, another on repression and the social contract in the novels, and an afterword on the contrast of styles. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : James L. Robertson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1496847105

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Rowdy Boundaries by James L. Robertson Pdf

Narratives of the good, the bad, and the outlandish in legal tangles along Mississippi's borders

Author : Edmund Ware,Robeson Bailey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Short story
ISBN : UOM:39015003935460

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From Fact to Fiction by Edmund Ware,Robeson Bailey Pdf

Group of short stories which serve as a basis for discussions of writing techniques.

Author : Frank Anechiarico,James B. Jacobs
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1996-12-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 0226020517

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The Pursuit of Absolute Integrity by Frank Anechiarico,James B. Jacobs Pdf

Using anticorruption efforts in New York City to illustrate their argument, Anechiarico and Jacobs demonstrate the costly inefficiencies of pursuing absolute integrity. By proliferating dysfunctions, constraining decision makers' discretion, shaping priorities, and causing delays, corruption control - no less than corruption itself - has contributed to the contemporary crisis in public administration.

Author : Carl Cohen
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780700619962

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A Conflict of Principles by Carl Cohen Pdf

"No state . . . shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." So says the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution, a document held dear by Carl Cohen, a professor of philosophy and longtime champion of civil liberties who has devoted most of his adult life to the University of Michigan. So when Cohen discovered, after encountering some resistance, how his school, in its admirable wish to increase minority enrollment, was actually practicing a form of racial discrimination—calling it "affirmative action"—he found himself at odds with his longtime allies and colleagues in an effort to defend the equal treatment of the races at his university. In A Conflict of Principles Cohen tells the story of what happened at Michigan, how racial preferences were devised and implemented there, and what was at stake in the heated and divisive controversy that ensued. He gives voice to the judicious and seldom heard liberal argument against affirmative action in college admission policies. In the early 1970s, as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Civil Liberties Union, Cohen vigorously supported programs devised to encourage the recruitment of minorities in colleges, and in private employment. But some of these efforts gave deliberate preference to blacks and Hispanics seeking university admission, and this Cohen recognized as a form of racism, however well-meaning. In his book he recounts the fortunes of contested affirmative action programs as they made their way through the legal system to the Supreme Court, beginning with DeFunis v. Odegaard (1974) at the University of Washington Law School, then Bakke v. Regents of the University of California (1978) at the Medical School on the UC Davis campus, and culminating at the University of Michigan in the landmark cases of Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger (2003). He recounts his role in the initiation of the Michigan cases, explaining the many arguments against racial preferences in college admissions. He presents a principled case for the resultant amendment to the Michigan constitution, of which he was a prominent advocate, which prohibited preference by race in public employment and public contracting, as well as in public education. An eminently readable personal, consistently fair-minded account of the principles and politics that come into play in the struggles over affirmative action, A Conflict of Principles is a deeply thoughtful and thought-provoking contribution to our national conversation about race.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Folklore
ISBN : UOM:39015007026761

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Journal of American Folklore by Anonim Pdf

Author : Wendy Siuyi Wong
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781568982694

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Hong Kong Comics by Wendy Siuyi Wong Pdf

Asian comics are increasingly popular in the West, where comic and illustration enthusiasts prize them as objects of cult-like devotion. Wendy Siuyi Wong's voluminously illustrated book examines the history of this genre from its beginnings to its most influential contemporary practitioners. Over 1,000 color manhua, each with an English annotation.

Author : Kayleen M. Hazlehurst,Cameron Hazlehurst
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 141282432X

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Gangs and Youth Subcultures by Kayleen M. Hazlehurst,Cameron Hazlehurst Pdf

Despite nearly a century of scholarly inquiry into street gangs and youth subcultures, no single work systematically reflects on comparative international experiences with gangs. Gangs and Youth Subcultures takes up this challenge. Kayleen Hazlehurst and Cameron Hazlehurst argue that theories of gang behavior in immigrant communities and the influence of transnational crime syndicates are better tested in more than one host society. Similar phenomena would be better understood if placed in a comparative context. To this purpose, the editors assembled expert scholars and policy advisers from North America, Europe, South Africa, and Australasia. Gangs and Youth Subcultures lays the ground-work for an explanation of why gangs continue to grow in strength and influence, and why they have spread to remote locations. This book will interest scholars and teachers of criminology and sociology, justice system administrators, as well as law enforcement officers and youth workers internationally.