Author: H. W. BrandsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
A Texas Supreme Court Trilogy: Oral history interview with the Honorable Robert W. Calvert
Author: H. W. BrandsA Texas Supreme Court Trilogy: Oral history interview with the Honorable Joe R. Greenhill, Sr
Author: H. W. BrandsThe Texas Supreme Court
Author: James L. HaleyPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292748833
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
“Few people realize that in the area of law, Texas began its American journey far ahead of most of the rest of the country, far more enlightened on such subjects as women’s rights and the protection of debtors.” Thus James Haley begins this highly readable account of the Texas Supreme Court. The first book-length history of the Court published since 1917, it tells the story of the Texas Supreme Court from its origins in the Republic of Texas to the political and philosophical upheavals of the mid-1980s. Using a lively narrative style rather than a legalistic approach, Haley describes the twists and turns of an evolving judiciary both empowered and constrained by its dual ties to Spanish civil law and English common law. He focuses on the personalities and judicial philosophies of those who served on the Supreme Court, as well as on the interplay between the Court’s rulings and the state’s unique history in such areas as slavery, women’s rights, land and water rights, the rise of the railroad and oil and gas industries, Prohibition, civil rights, and consumer protection. The book is illustrated with more than fifty historical photos, many from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It concludes with a detailed chronology of milestones in the Supreme Court’s history and a list, with appointment and election dates, of the more than 150 justices who have served on the Court since 1836.
A Texas Supreme Court Trilogy
Author: H. W. BrandsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780935630510
Category : Judges
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A Texas Supreme Court Trilogy
Author: H. W. BrandsOral History Association Newsletter
Author: A Texas Supreme Court Trilogy
Author: H. W. BrandsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780935630510
Category : Judges
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
OHA Newsletter
Author: Documentary Screens
Author: Keith BeattiePublisher: Red Globe Press
ISBN: 0333741161
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Keith Beattie's study offers a clear and comprehensive analysis of documentary film and television by adopting a 'documentary studies' approach in which non-fictional work is situated within historical, economic and disciplinary contexts.
The Vitamin A Story
Author: R.D. SembaPublisher: Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers
ISBN: 331802189X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This book shows how vitamin A deficiency – before the vitamin was known to scientists – affected millions of people throughout history. It is a story of sailors and soldiers, penniless mothers, orphaned infants, and young children left susceptible to blindness and fatal infections. We also glimpse the fortunate ones who, with ample vitamin A-rich food, escaped this elusive stalker. Why were people going blind and dying? To unravel this puzzle, scientists around the world competed over the course of a century. Their persistent efforts led to the identification of vitamin A and its essential role in health. As a primary focus of today’s international public health efforts, vitamin A has saved hundreds of thousands of lives. But, we discover, they could save many more were it not for obstacles erected by political and ideological zealots who lack a historical perspective of the problem. Although exhaustively researched and documented, this book is written for intellectually curious lay readers as well as for specialists. Public health professionals, nutritionists, and historians of science and medicine have much to learn from this book about the cultural and scientific origins of their disciplines. Likewise, readers interested in military and cultural history will learn about the interaction of health, society, science, and politics. The author’s presentation of vitamin A deficiency is likely to become a classic case study of health disparities in the past as well as the present.