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Tort Law and the Construction of Change studies the interaction of law and social change in American history. Tort law--civil law made by judges, not legislators--is traditionally thought to arise out of legal precedent. But Kenneth S. Abraham and G. Edward White show that American judges over the course of the previous two centuries also paid close attention to changing societal contexts in which lawsuits for civil injuries arose. They argue that two versions of history-one grounded in the application of previous legal rules and the other responsive to larger societal changes--must be considered in tandem to grasp fully how American civil law has evolved over time. In five fascinating chapters, they cover understudied areas of tort law, such as liability for nonphysical harm--including lawsuits for defamation, privacy, emotional distress, sexual harassment, and the hacking of confidential information--and aspects of tort litigation that have now disappeared, such as the prohibition against "interested" parties testifying in civil actions or the intentional infliction of temporal damage without justification. What emerges is a picture of the complicated legal dance American judges performed to cloak their decisions to make at times radical changes in tort law in response to social transformations. When confronting established tort doctrines under pressure from emerging social changes, they found ways to preserve at least the appearance of doctrinal continuity.

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"Generously illustrated, definitive guide to the built world of Missouri. A nineteenth-century traveler once described Missouri as "neither east nor west nor north nor south." It is a place of topographical transitions, delineated on the east by the Mississippi River and bisected by the Missouri River, encompassing a landscape of plains, bottomland, forests, and mountains, and home to iconic figures of American history-Laura Ingalls Wilder, Mark Twain, Scott Joplin, Jesse James, and Harry Truman, among them-as well as explorers, settlers, enslaved persons, immigrants, migrant workers, and, to this day, people starting new lives. Missouri has an equally rich mix of architectural styles and influences. The "Show Me State" volume in the award-winning Buildings of the United States series includes substantive guides to the major urban centers of St. Louis and Kansas City, surveys everything from Native American villages and petroglyphs to farms and small-town streetscapes, and highlights such landmarks of modern design as Adler and Sullivan's Wainwright Building, Eero Saarinen's iconic Gateway Arch, and Moshe Safdie's Kauffman Center"--

"Examines the crucial work performed by presidential transition teams and proposes a solution to the current, ad hoc system. Liddell argues that transition teams should begin their work in "Year Zero," a year before inauguration, and he lays out concrete steps, highlighting how these reforms would fundamentally improve the functioning of the executive branch, and in so doing pay dividends for our democracy"--

A generously illustrated history of the great Virginia home and estate This beautifully illustrated volume tells the story of Huntland, the historic estate in Middleburg, Virginia, beginning in the 1830s, when master builder William Benton created the original house, and covering the state of the house and grounds--and its owners--into the third decade of the twenty-first century. > Distributed for Huntland Press, LLC

"This book evaluates in a comparative international fashion the theory that the better off in society tend to prevail in litigation -- what is known to law professionals and political scientists as "party capability theory.""--

"Poplar Forest is one of two personal residences that Thomas Jefferson designed for himself, the other (of course) being Monticello. Despite its audacious design-it was the first octagonal residence in America-and the fact that is one of the very few extant Jeffersonian structures, Poplar Forest is not nearly so well-known today as its sibling seventy miles to the northeast. Travis McDonald, director of architectural restoration at Poplar Forest, situates the site in its rightful position as a historically important Virginia house, and documents its story as central to Jefferson's life and approach to architecture, with due consideration of the enslaved community at his western retreat"--

Comprising hundreds of direct quotations culled from George Washington's correspondence, diaries, and speeches, this volume is a delightful, unique, and authoritative source for the beliefs, morals, and insights that guided America's greatest national hero. A selection of quotations about Washington by luminaries throughout the world, an index, and a chronology of Washington's life complete the volume. 31 illustrations. Index. Chronology. Bibliography.