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“Inherently Bad, And Bad Only”: A History Of State-Level Regulation Of Cigarettes And Smoking In The United States Since The 1880s. Volume 1: An In-Depth National Study Embedding Ultra-Thick Description Of A Representative State (Iowa), Marc Linder
Marc Linder
This book lays out empirical and methodological underpinnings for studying the early period of anti-cigarette legislation in the United States by overcoming the lack of primary source-based historical scholarship. Constantly repeating wildly erroneous claims at second, third, and more remote hand, anti-smoking academics and pro-tobacco apologists have fundamentally distorted history, on the one hand by dismissing the early anti-cigarette movement as merely religiously and morally motivated and the legislation it secured as unenforced exercises bereft of historical relevance, and, on the other by absurdly magnifying its achievements. Reconstruction of the national scope of the real course of the passage and …
"They Have Travailed Into A Wrong Latitude:" The Laws Of England, Indian Settlements, And The British Imperial Constitution 1726-1773, Arthur Fraas
Arthur Mitchell Fraas
In the mid-eighteenth century the British Crown claimed a network of territories around the globe as its "Empire." Through a close study of law and legal instutions in Bombay, Madras, Calcutta, as well as London, this dissertation examines what it meant to be a part of that Empire. These three cities on the Indian subcontinent were administered by the English East India Company and as such have often seemed abberant or unique to scholars of eighteenth-century empire and law. This dissertation argues that these Indian cities fit squarely within an imperial legal and governmental framework common to the wider British …
Primary Sources At A Distance: Researching Indian Colonial Law, Arthur Fraas
Primary Sources At A Distance: Researching Indian Colonial Law, Arthur Fraas
Arthur Mitchell Fraas
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Legal Databases: A Comparative Analysis, Arthur Fraas
Legal Databases: A Comparative Analysis, Arthur Fraas
Arthur Mitchell Fraas
A comparative report commissioned by the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) on the world of electronic databases for legal history research.
Review Of "Heinonline", Arthur Fraas
Review Of "Heinonline", Arthur Fraas
Arthur Mitchell Fraas
A detailed review of the HeinOnline electronic database commissioned by the Center for Research Libraries (CRL)
Review Of "Llmc-Digital", Arthur Fraas
Review Of "Llmc-Digital", Arthur Fraas
Arthur Mitchell Fraas
A detailed review of the LLMC-Digital electronic database commissioned by the Center for Research Libraries (CRL)