The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists…

Full Title: Trial of William Palmer Description: The Making of the Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926 collection provides descriptions of the major trials from over 300 years, with official trial documents…

Paradise or wasteland–the wilderness has always been a challenge to Westerners. Wilderness and Paradise in Christian Thought traces the exciting theme of the quest for the wilderness–both physical and metaphysical–to…

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Readers familiar with the luminous scholarly contributions of Harry Austryn Wolfson will welcome this rich collection of essays that have been previously published in widely dispersed journals and books, The…

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1887 Original Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and company Subjects: United States New York (State) Biography

The Works of William H. Seward V3 is a book that compiles the writings and speeches of William H. Seward, an American politician and statesman who served as the Secretary…

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…