American Contagions
Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19
ISBN: PB: 9780300261516,
ISBN: HB: 9780300257274,
Yale University Press,
January 2022
184 pp., 20,3x12,7 cm
184 pp., 20,3x12,7 cm
From yellow fever to smallpox to polio to AIDS to COVID-19, epidemics have prompted Americans to make choices and answer questions about their basic values and their laws. In five concise chapters, historian John Fabian Witt traces the legal history...
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10.99 GBP
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13.99 GBP
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To Save the Country
A Lost Treatise on Martial Law
ISBN: HB: 9780300222548,
Yale University Press,
September 2019
344 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 4 black&white illus.
344 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 4 black&white illus.
The last work of Abraham Lincoln's law of war expert Francis Lieber was long considered lost – until Will Smiley and John Fabian Witt discovered it in the National Archives. Lieber's manuscript on emergency powers and martial law addresses important...
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42.50 GBP
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