2007, ISBN: 9780874175158

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Melbourne University Press, Australia, 2007. First Trade. Trade Paperback. As New. 322 pages. Remainder mark on page edges. Multiple copies of this title available. This book is an u… Mehr…

Melbourne University Press, Australia, 2007. First Trade. Trade Paperback. As New. 322 pages. Remainder mark on page edges. Multiple copies of this title available. This book is an unread copy. Detainee 002 reveals in unprecedented detail how an Australian citizen wound up in the War on Terror. Based on more than five years of reporting and dozens of interviews with insiders, Leigh Sales explains the intricacies of Hicks's case, from his capture in Afghanistan, to life in Guantanamo Bay, to the behind-the-scene establishment and workings of the military commissions. Sales' impeccable research takes us from top-secret negotiations at the White House and Pentagon to the domestic fallout Hicks's incarceration has had on his family, to the campaign that Major Michael Mori, the marine who becomes his greatest advocate, waged on his behalf. David Hicks's case is emblematic of some of the greatest challenges facing the world today: the rise of Islamic extremism, terrorism and the accountability of governments towards their citizens. It is a chilling reminder that, in a war with ever-changing rules and no end in sight, there are no limits. Quantity Available: 2. Category: Biography & Autobiography; True Crime. ISBN/EAN: 9780522854008. Inventory No: 07120104.. 9780522854008, Melbourne University Press, 2007, The Crime Club Collins, 14 St. James's Place, London First edition 1946. 1946., 1946. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original orange cloth covers, black lettering to spine. 8vo 7½" x 5¼". 192 pp. Reading condition with general soiling to covers, former message inside. no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A., The Crime Club Collins, 14 St. James's Place, London First edition 1946. 1946., 1946, University of Nevada Press. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 2002. Reprint. Hardcover. 9780874175158 . . Contents include: Illustrations, Acknowledgements, Prologue, Red Man: White Justice, Chinese Tongs: Group Solidarity, Hispanics: Justice In A Conqured Land, White Man: White Justice, Prison, Homicide rates, and Justice. ; Shepperson Series in History Humanities; 9.88 X 6.16 X 0.73 inches; 148 pages; High murder rates have always been considered an indication of a society in turmoil, and nineteenth-century California was no exception. There, a rapidly growing population, booming mining camps, insufficient or nonexistent law-enforcement personnel, and a large number of diverse ethnic groups with differing attitudes toward the law and personal honor created a situation where violence was common and legal responses varied broadly. Clare V. McKanna Jr. has published widely on the history of criminal justice in the West. For <i>Race and Homicide in Nineteenth-Century California</i>, he studied coroners' inquest reports, court case files, prison registers, and other primary sources, as well as numerous printed sources, to analyze patterns of homicide and the vagaries of the state's embryonic justice system. The nature of crimes, he discovered, varied with the ethnicity of perpetrators and victims, as did trials and sentencing patterns. Marginalized individuals, like the state's diminishing Indians, fared worst, and Hispanics, whose traditional legal system differed in important ways from the imported practices of the new white majority, did little better. Homicide in the Chinese community was largely confined to fellow Chinese and was often prompted by rivalries among various secret societies. Whites, coming from a number of backgrounds, carried their own conceptions of honor and their own predilections toward violence. <P>McKanna presents here a vivid, carefully detailed portrait of a society in flux, where ancient Spanish and Chinese legal practices collided with English common law and the "Code of the West," where greed, poverty, and down-right meanness created tensions that frequently led to bloodshed. The text, enhanced with testimony from contemporary sources and illustrated with numerous period photographs, is an engaging and richly intelligent study of a frontier society where the law was neither omnipresent nor, frequently, impartial. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of the West and of the evolution of American law. ., University of Nevada Press, 2002<

ISBN: 9780874175158

High murder rates have always been considered an indication of a society in turmoil, and nineteenth-century California was no exception. A rapidly growing population, booming mining camps… Mehr…

High murder rates have always been considered an indication of a society in turmoil, and nineteenth-century California was no exception. A rapidly growing population, booming mining camps, insufficient or nonexistent law-enforcement personnel, and many ethnic groups with differing attitudes toward law and personal honor created a situation in which violence was common and legal responses varied broadly.McKanna presents here a vivid, carefully detailed portrait of a society in flux, where ancient Spanish and Chinese legal practices collided with English common law and the "Code of the West, " where greed, poverty, and down-right meanness created tensions that frequently led to bloodshed. The text, enhanced with testimony from contemporary sources and illustrated with period photographs, is an engaging and richly intelligent study of a frontier society where the law was neither omnipresent nor, frequently, impartial. Media > Book<

ISBN: 9780874175158

High murder rates have always been considered an indication of a society in turmoil, and nineteenth-century California was no exception. A rapidly growing population, booming mining camps… Mehr…

High murder rates have always been considered an indication of a society in turmoil, and nineteenth-century California was no exception. A rapidly growing population, booming mining camps, insufficient or nonexistent law-enforcement personnel, and many ethnic groups with differing attitudes toward law and personal honor created a situation in which violence was common and legal responses varied broadly.McKanna presents here a vivid, carefully detailed portrait of a society in flux, where ancient Spanish and Chinese legal practices collided with English common law and the "Code of the West, " where greed, poverty, and down-right meanness created tensions that frequently led to bloodshed. The text, enhanced with testimony from contemporary sources and illustrated with period photographs, is an engaging and richly intelligent study of a frontier society where the law was neither omnipresent nor, frequently, impartial. Media > Book<

ISBN: 9780874175158

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