The Trials Of Thomas Morton

Author : Peter C. Mancall
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Algonquian Indians
ISBN : 9780300230109

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The Trials of Thomas Morton by Peter C. Mancall Pdf

A new look at Thomas Morton, his controversial colonial philosophy, and his lengthy feud with the Puritans Adding new depth to our understanding of early New England society, this riveting account of Thomas Morton explores the tensions that arose from competing colonial visions. A lawyer and fur trader, Thomas Morton dreamed of a society where Algonquian peoples and English colonists could coexist. Infamous for dancing around a maypole in defiance of his Pilgrim neighbors, Morton was reviled by the Puritans for selling guns to the Natives. Colonial authorities exiled him three separate times from New England, but Morton kept returning to fight for his beliefs. This compelling counter-narrative to the familiar story of the Puritans combines a rich understanding of the period with a close reading of early texts to bring the contentious Morton to life. This volume sheds new light on the tumultuous formative decades of the American experience.

Author : Thomas Morton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : UCSD:31822017329640

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New English Canaan of Thomas Morton by Thomas Morton Pdf

Author : David D. Hall
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691203379

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The Puritans by David D. Hall Pdf

"Shedding critical new light on the diverse forms of Puritan belief and practice in England, Scotland, and New England, Hall provides a multifaceted account of a cultural movement that judged the Protestant reforms of Elizabeth's reign to be unfinished"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Hans V. Hansen
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773590472

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Riel's Defence by Hans V. Hansen Pdf

In 1885, Louis Riel was charged with high treason, found guilty, and consequently executed for his role in Saskatchewan's North-West Rebellion. During his trial, the Métis leader gave two speeches, passionately defending the interests of the Métis in western Canada as well as his own life. Riel's Defence studies these speeches, demonstrating the range of Riel's political and personal concerns. The first and better known of the two speeches addresses the jury, while Riel's second speech - rarely reprinted - addresses the court following his guilty verdict. Both orations have been edited, annotated, and reprinted, and are followed by essays from diverse perspectives including philosophy, law, history, political science, religion, and communication studies. Through the course of their inquiry, contributors come to understand more about Riel's personal character and political thought, as well as his arguments supporting Métis land claims, grievances against the federal government, and his immigration plan for the North-West. Evaluating the rhetorical quality, legal merit, and cultural stakes of his speeches, Riel's Defence reveals the significance of the last public statements made by a man who indelibly shaped Canada’s history by combining his personal vision with a national vision.

Author : Thomas George Morton,Frank Woodbury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038567306

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The History of the Pennsylvania Hospital, 1751-1895 by Thomas George Morton,Frank Woodbury Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0352314826

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The Memoirs of Dolly Morton by Anonim Pdf

Set in mid-nineteenth century America, Dolly's story is of the fight against slavery in the deep south, and her own struggle against exploitation by men both enslaved and free. She eventually finds the love she has searched for in the virile person of Captain Franklin.

Author : Andrew Kornbluth
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674249134

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The August Trials by Andrew Kornbluth Pdf

The first account of the August Trials, in which postwar Poland confronted the betrayal of Jewish citizens under Nazi rule but ended up fashioning an alibi for the past. When six years of ferocious resistance to Nazi occupation came to an end in 1945, a devastated Poland could agree with its new Soviet rulers on little else beyond the need to punish German war criminals and their collaborators. Determined to root out the “many Cains among us,” as a Poznań newspaper editorial put it, Poland’s judicial reckoning spawned 32,000 trials and spanned more than a decade before being largely forgotten. Andrew Kornbluth reconstructs the story of the August Trials, long dismissed as a Stalinist travesty, and discovers that they were in fact a scrupulous search for the truth. But as the process of retribution began to unearth evidence of enthusiastic local participation in the Holocaust, the hated government, traumatized populace, and fiercely independent judiciary all struggled to salvage a purely heroic vision of the past that could unify a nation recovering from massive upheaval. The trials became the crucible in which the Communist state and an unyielding society forged a foundational myth of modern Poland but left a lasting open wound in Polish-Jewish relations. The August Trials draws striking parallels with incomplete postwar reckonings on both sides of the Iron Curtain, suggesting the extent to which ethnic cleansing and its abortive judicial accounting are part of a common European heritage. From Paris and The Hague to Warsaw and Kyiv, the law was made to serve many different purposes, even as it failed to secure the goal with which it is most closely associated: justice.

Author : Stephen Vincent Benet,Stephen Vincent Benét
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1943-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0822203030

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The Devil and Daniel Webster by Stephen Vincent Benet,Stephen Vincent Benét Pdf

THE STORY: Jabez Stone, young farmer, has just been married, and the guests are dancing at his wedding. But Jabez carries a burden, for he knows that, having sold his soul to the Devil, he must, on the stroke of midnight, deliver it up to him. Shortly before twelve Mr. Scratch, lawyer, enters and the company is thunderstruck. Jabez bids his guests begone; he has made his bargain and will pay the price. His bride, however, stands by him, and so will Daniel Webster, who has come for the festivities. Webster takes the case. But Scratch is a lawyer himself and out-argues the statesman. Webster demands a jury of real Americans, living or dead. Very well, agrees the Devil, he shall have them, and ghosts appear. Webster thunders, but to no avail, and at last realizing Scratch can better him on technical grounds, he changes his tactics and appeals to the ghostly jury, men who have retained some love of country. Rising to the height of his powers, Webster performs the miracle of winning a verdict of Not Guilty.

Author : Thomas A. Tweed
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520917989

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Retelling U.S. Religious History by Thomas A. Tweed Pdf

This collection marks a turning point in the study of the history of American religions. In challenging the dominant paradigm, Thomas A. Tweed and his coauthors propose nothing less than a reshaping of the way that American religious history is understood, studied, and taught. The range of these essays is extraordinary. They analyze sexual pleasure, colonization, gender, and interreligious exchange. The narrators position themselves in a number of geographical sites, including the Canadian border, the American West, and the Deep South. And they discuss a wide range of groups, from Pueblo Indians and Russian Orthodox to Japanese Buddhists and Southern Baptists.

Author : Yuma Totani
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684174737

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The Tokyo War Crimes Trial by Yuma Totani Pdf

"This book assesses the historical significance of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE)—commonly called the Tokyo trial—established as the eastern counterpart of the Nuremberg trial in the immediate aftermath of World War II. Through extensive research in Japanese, American, Australian, and Indian archives, Yuma Totani taps into a large body of previously underexamined sources to explore some of the central misunderstandings and historiographical distortions that have persisted to the present day. Foregrounding these voluminous records, Totani disputes the notion that the trial was an exercise in “victors’ justice” in which the legal process was egregiously compromised for political and ideological reasons; rather, the author details the achievements of the Allied prosecution teams in documenting war crimes and establishing the responsibility of the accused parties to show how the IMTFE represented a sound application of the legal principles established at Nuremberg. This study deepens our knowledge of the historical intricacies surrounding the Tokyo trial and advances our understanding of the Japanese conduct of war and occupation during World War II, the range of postwar debates on war guilt, and the relevance of the IMTFE to the continuing development of international humanitarian law."

Author : William Roper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Christian saints
ISBN : OXFORD:300150148

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The Life of Sir Thomas More by William Roper Pdf

Author : Arvind Thomas
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487502461

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Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law by Arvind Thomas Pdf

It is a medieval truism that the poet meddles with words, the lawyer with the world. But are the poet's words and the lawyer's world really so far apart? To what extent does the art of making poems share in the craft of making laws, and vice versa? Framed by such questions, Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages examines the mutually productive interaction between literary and legal "makyngs" in England's great Middle English poem by William Langland. Focusing on Piers Plowman's preoccupation with wrongdoing in the B and C versions, Arvind Thomas examines the versions' representations of trials, confessions, restitutions, penalties, and pardons. Thomas explores how the "literary" informs and transforms the "legal" until they finally cannot be separated. Thomas shows how the poem's narrative voice, metaphor, syntax and style not only reflect but also act upon properties of canon law, such as penitential procedures and authoritative maxims. Langland's mobilization of juridical concepts, Thomas insists, not only engenders a poetics informed by canonist thought but also expresses an alternative vision of canon law from that proposed by medieval jurists and today's medievalists.

Author : Thomas D. Morris
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780807864302

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Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860 by Thomas D. Morris Pdf

This volume is the first comprehensive history of the evolving relationship between American slavery and the law from colonial times to the Civil War. As Thomas Morris clearly shows, racial slavery came to the English colonies as an institution without strict legal definitions or guidelines. Specifically, he demonstrates that there was no coherent body of law that dealt solely with slaves. Instead, more general legal rules concerning inheritance, mortgages, and transfers of property coexisted with laws pertaining only to slaves. According to Morris, southern lawmakers and judges struggled to reconcile a social order based on slavery with existing English common law (or, in Louisiana, with continental civil law.) Because much was left to local interpretation, laws varied between and even within states. In addition, legal doctrine often differed from local practice. And, as Morris reveals, in the decades leading up to the Civil War, tensions mounted between the legal culture of racial slavery and the competing demands of capitalism and evangelical Christianity.

Author : Alan M. Dershowitz
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 1061 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004-05-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780759511033

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America on Trial by Alan M. Dershowitz Pdf

The renowned attorney and bestselling author reveals how notable trials throughout our history have helped to shape our nation. Offering insights into the human condition, these trials serve as a historical document, chronicling the struggles and passions of their time.

Author : Albert J. Von Frank
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674039548

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The Trials of Anthony Burns by Albert J. Von Frank Pdf

Before 1854, most Northerners managed to ignore the distant unpleasantness of slavery. But that year an escaped Virginia slave, Anthony Burns, was captured and brought to trial in Boston--and never again could Northerners look the other way. This is the story of Burns's trial and of how, arising in abolitionist Boston just as the incendiary Kansas-Nebraska Act took effect, it revolutionized the moral and political climate in Massachusetts and sent shock waves through the nation. In a searching cultural analysis, Albert J. von Frank draws us into the drama and the consequences of the case. He introduces the individuals who contended over the fate of the barely literate twenty-year-old runaway slave--figures as famous as Richard Henry Dana Jr., the defense attorney, as colorful as Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Bronson Alcott, who led a mob against the courthouse where Burns was held, and as intriguing as Moncure Conway, the Virginia-born abolitionist who spied on Burns's master. The story is one of desperate acts, even murder--a special deputy slain at the courthouse door--but it is also steeped in ideas. Von Frank links the deeds and rhetoric surrounding the Burns case to New England Transcendentalism, principally that of Ralph Waldo Emerson. His book is thus also a study of how ideas relate to social change, exemplified in the art and expression of Emerson, Henry Thoreau, Theodore Parker, Bronson Alcott, Walt Whitman, and others. Situated at a politically critical moment--with the Whig party collapsing and the Republican arising, with provocations and ever hotter rhetoric intensifying regional tensions--the case of Anthony Burns appears here as the most important fugitive slave case in American history. A stirring work of intellectual and cultural history, this book shows how the Burns affair brought slavery home to the people of Boston and brought the nation that much closer to the Civil War.