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Examines the ways in which five great modern American poets, writing their final books, try to find a style that does justice to life and death alike. This title focuses on the books: "The Rock", "Ariel", "Day by Day", "Geography III" and "A Scattering of Salts".

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After decades of ideological struggle Latin America has embraced liberalism. This book explores this period of circumscribed political passions through portrayals of crucial political, economic, social, and cultural issues: governance, entrepreneurs and markets, urban bias, poverty, the struggle for women's equality, consumerism, and others.

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Most histories of Catholicism in the United States focus on the experience of Euro-American Catholics, whose views on social issues have dominated public debates. Latino Catholicism provides a comprehensive overview of the Latino Catholic experience in America from the sixteenth century to today, and offers the most in-depth examination to date of

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This book is about cooperation. Substantively, it is about cooperation in Europe, as well as about cooperation in science and technology. Analytically, it is about cooperation as a form of structure and as a kind of practice.

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While Professor of Law and Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Ghana from 1962 to 1964, the author personally observed the evolving legal order in Ghana during a crucial period in that country's development. Here, he considers statutes and judicial decisions. Working from the premise that law is a value-neutral technique of social order

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John Norton Moore, the most prominent legal scholar to defend a position basically in agreement with the present Administration, presents a coherent, well-argued interpretation of the specific legal issues raised by U.S. involvement in Vietnam and their implications for international and constitutional law. Originally published in 1972. The Princ

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This in-depth study of civil trial courts in any American city during the nineteenth century. Examining cases brought before the Boston civil courts between 1880 and 1900, Robert Silverman shows how the business of these tribunals mirrors social and economic changes within the urban community and how these changes made the 1890s a turning point in

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Law is integral to culture, and culture to law. This book invites readers to consider how the facts that are adduced in a legal forum connect to the ways in which facts are constructed in other areas of everyday life, and how the processes of legal decision-making partake of the logic by which the culture as a whole is put together.

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In this lively and informative volume Professor Corbett examines the role of law in the relations of nations, focusing on American, British, and Russian diplomacy. In case studies from 1585 to 1958 he considers the reasons why nations appeal to universal norms, traces the growth of a distinct body of rules appropriate to intergovernmental affairs,

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What authority does international law really have for the United States When and to what extent should the United States participate in the international legal system This book provides an insight into these questions. It traces the traditional American wariness of international law to the basic principles of American thought.

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Argues that legal decision making cannot be understood if one counterposes science and technology, on the one hand, to common knowledge and common sense on the other. This book underlines the importance of analyzing dynamically how knowledge formation works. It is intended for students from disciplines including law, sociology, and anthropology.

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What does economics have to do with law Offering a defense of the economic view of law, this book clarifies the relationship between law and economics.

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Jewish legal and political thought developed in conditions of exile, where Jews had neither a state of their own nor citizenship in any other. What use, then, can this body of thought be to Jews living in Israel or as emancipated citizens in secular states This collection of essays by political theorists and lawyers deals with such questions.

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Gerald Strauss offers a comprehensive study of a phenomenon of great interest to scholars of early modern Europe: the widespread opposition to Roman law and lawyers in sixteenth-century Germany. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print boo

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Seeks to map the inexorable but unstable relationship of law to violence. Building on the seminal work of Robert Cover and striving to situate his insights within political, social, economic, and cultural contexts, this book contemplates diverse and interrelated subjects surrounding the theme of law and violence.