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Migration. Refugees --- Labour market --- Western Europe --- 331.5 --- 331.6 --- 67.001 --- #GGSB: Economie --- 658.11 --- Arbeidsmarkt. Werkgelegenheid --(algemeen) --- arbeidsmarkt - arbeidsmarktvraagstukken - arbeidsmarktstudie - arbeidsmarkt, analyse van de - arbeidsplaatsen --- technologisch beleid --- Kinds and forms of enterprise --- 658.11 Kinds and forms of enterprise --- 331.5 Arbeidsmarkt. Werkgelegenheid --(algemeen) --- Economie
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This book examines the processes by which effective royal government was restored in England following the civil war of Stephen's reign. It questions the traditional view that Stephen presided over 'anarchy', arguing instead that the king and his rivals sought to maintain the administrative traditions of Henry I, leaving foundations for a restoration of order once the war was over. The period from 1153 to 1162, spanning the last months of Stephen's reign and the early years of Henry II's, is seen as one primarily of 'restoration' when concerted efforts were made to recover royal lands, rights and revenues lost since 1135. Thereafter 'restoration' gave way to 'reform': although the administrative advances of 1166 have been seen as a watershed in Henry II's reign, the financial and judicial measures of 1163-65 were sufficiently important for this, also, to be regarded as a transitional phase in his government of England.
Great Britain --- History --- -History --- -Politics and government --- -Great Britain --- -Great Britain - Politics and government - 1154-118. --- Regions & Countries - Europe --- History & Archaeology --- Politics and government --- Great Britain - Politics and government - 1154-118. --- History. --- England --- 1154-1189 --- Henry II, 1154-1189 --- Stephen, 1135-1154 --- Arts and Humanities
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In the third volume of 'Law in American History' G. Edward White argues that the modern era of constitutional law began in the 1930s and demonstrates how we are still living with changes in foreign policy, executive power, criminal procedure and the rights of speech, sexuality and voting, among other areas.
Law --- History. --- America --- History and criticism
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In a powerful new narrative, G. Edward White challenges the reigning understanding of twentieth-century Supreme Court decisions, particularly in the New Deal period. He does this by rejecting such misleading characterizations as "liberal," "conservative," and "reactionary," and by reexamining several key topics in constitutional law. Through a close reading of sources and analysis of the minds and sensibilities of a wide array of justices, including Holmes, Brandeis, Sutherland, Butler, Van Devanter, and McReynolds, White rediscovers the world of early-twentieth-century constitutional law and jurisprudence. He provides a counter-story to that of the triumphalist New Dealers. The deep conflicts over constitutional ideas that took place in the first half of the twentieth century are sensitively recovered, and the morality play of good liberals vs. mossbacks is replaced. This is the only thoroughly researched and fully realized history of the constitutional thought and practice of all the Supreme Court justices during the turbulent period that made America modern.
Constitutional history --- New Deal, 1933-1939. --- New Deal, 1933-1939 --- United States --- Economic policy
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A complete biography of the American judge Oliver Wendell Holmes, which shows the relationship between his 19th-century Boston upbringing and his 20th-century legal innovations. By examining Holmes's colourful life, the author defines the connection between legal thought and cultural change.
Judges --- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, --- Holmes, O. W. --- Biography
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At a time when many baseball fans wish for the game to return to a purer past, G. Edward White shows how seemingly irrational business decisions, inspired in part by the self-interest of the owners but also by their nostalgia for the game, transformed baseball into the national pastime. Not simply a professional sport, baseball has been treated as a focus of childhood rituals and an emblem of American individuality and fair play throughout much of the twentieth century. It started out, however, as a marginal urban sport associated with drinking and gambling. White describes its progression to an almost mythic status as an idyllic game, popular among people of all ages and classes. He then recounts the owner's efforts, often supported by the legal system, to preserve this image. Baseball grew up in the midst of urban industrialization during the Progressive Era, and the emerging steel and concrete baseball parks encapsulated feelings of neighborliness and associations with the rural leisure of bygone times. According to White, these nostalgic themes, together with personal financial concerns, guided owners toward practices that in retrospect appear unfair to players and detrimental to the progress of the game. Reserve clauses, blacklisting, and limiting franchise territories, for example, were meant to keep a consistent roster of players on a team, build fan loyalty, and maintain the game's local flavor. These practices also violated anti-trust laws and significantly restricted the economic power of the players. Owners vigorously fought against innovations, ranging from the night games and radio broadcasts to the inclusion of African-American players. Nonetheless, the image of baseball as a spirited civic endeavor persisted, even in the face of outright corruption, as witnessed in the courts' leniency toward the participants in the Black Sox scandal of 1919. White's story of baseball is intertwined with changes in technology and business in America and with changing attitudes toward race and ethnicity. The time is fast approaching, he concludes, when we must consider whether baseball is still regarded as the national pastime and whether protecting its image is worth the effort.
Baseball --- Base-ball --- Ball games --- History --- Social aspects
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First published in 1968, The Eastern Establishment and the Western Experience has become a classic in the field of American studies. G. Edward White traces the origins of “the West of the imagination” to the adolescent experiences of Frederic Remington, Theodore Roosevelt, and Owen Wister—three Easterners from upper-class backgrounds who went West in the 1880s in search of an alternative way of life. Each of the three men came to identify with a somewhat idealized “Wild West” that embodied the virtues of individualism, self-reliance, and rugged masculinity. When they returned East, they popularized this image of the West through art, literature, politics, and even their public personae. Moreover, these Western virtues soon became and have remained American virtues—a patriotic ideal that links Easterners with Westerners. With a multidisciplinary blend of history, biography, sociology, psychology, and literary criticism, The Eastern Establishment and the Western Experience will appeal to a wide audience. The author has written a new preface, offering additional perspectives on the mythology of the West and its effect on the American character.
Remington, Frederic, -- 1861-1909. --- Roosevelt, Theodore, -- 1858-1919. --- United States -- Civilization -- 1865-1918. --- West (U.S.) -- Civilization. --- Wister, Owen, -- 1860-1938 -- Knowledge -- West (U.S.). --- Wister, Owen, --- Roosevelt, Theodore, --- Remington, Frederic, --- Knowledge --- West (U.S.) --- United States --- Civilization --- Civilization.
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Excavations (Archaeology) --- -Romans --- -Ethnology --- Italic peoples --- Latini (Italic people) --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Laufenburg (Germany) --- -Antiquities, Roman --- -Laufenburg (Germany) --- -Archaeological digs --- -Laufenburg/Baden (Germany) --- Antiquities, Roman --- Romans --- Ethnology --- Laufenburg/Baden (Germany) --- Antiquities, Roman. --- Archeologie romaine --- Allemagne
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