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My Best for the Kingdom: History and Autobiography of John Lowe Butler, a Mormon Frontiersman

By: William G. Hartley

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My Best for the Kingdom: History and Autobiography of John Lowe Butler, a Mormon Frontiersman

By: William G. Hartley

My Best for the Kingdom provides a valuable history of several little-known events in early Mormon history--the Church in Tennessee and Kentucky in the 1830s, the Danites in Missouri, Mormon resistance to Missouri persecutions, ... the James Emmett expedition, [and] pioneer Spanish Fork, Utah...John L. Butler's autobiography, given here in full, rivals and adds to the accounts of Hosea Stout and John D. Lee in telling the Mormon story of the 1830s, '40s, and '50s. Butler was a valiant militiaman, missionary, frontiersman, and bishop. A fast-moving, informative, well-researched and well-told account of Mormonism on the frontier...and pioneer Utah.""--Leonard J. Arrington quoted on the back outside jacket. This is the 3rd printing of My Best for the Kingdom (ISBN 978-1-365-73968-2) and is the same as the 2nd printing (ISBN 978-0-9843965-2-8) and 1st printing (ISBN 1-56236-212-7) versions except that the front & end papers (family chart and map) on the previous versions are now included as the final two pages.

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Lulu.com

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1365739686

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9781365739682

The Law of Treaties in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States

Text and Commentary

By: William Elliott Butler

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The Law of Treaties in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States

Text and Commentary

By: William Elliott Butler

This 2002 book includes full texts of relevant legislation, informed commentary on every article in the laws, and extensive bibliography.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521816068

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9780521816069

Roots of Secession

Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia

By: William A. Link

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Roots of Secession

Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia

By: William A. Link

Offering a provocative new look at the politics of secession in antebellum Virginia, William Link places African Americans at the center of events and argues that their acts of defiance and rebellion had powerful political repercussions throughout the turbulent period leading up to the Civil War. An upper South state with nearly half a million slaves--more than any other state in the nation--and some 50,000 free blacks, Virginia witnessed a uniquely volatile convergence of slave resistance and electoral politics in the 1850s. While masters struggled with slaves, disunionists sought to join a regionwide effort to secede and moderates sought to protect slavery but remain in the Union. Arguing for a definition of political action that extends beyond the electoral sphere, Link shows that the coming of the Civil War was directly connected to Virginia's system of slavery, as the tension between defiant slaves and anxious slaveholders energized Virginia politics and spurred on the impending sectional crisis.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807863203

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9780807863206

International Law in the Russian Legal System

By: William E. Butler

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International Law in the Russian Legal System

By: William E. Butler

This addition to the Elements of International Law series explores the role of international law as an integral part of the Russian legal system, with particular reference to the role of international treaties and of generally-recognized principles and norms of international law. Following a discussion of the historical place of treaties in Russian legal history and the sources of the Russian law of treaties, the book strikes new ground in exploring contemporary treaty-making in the Russian Federation by drawing upon sources not believed to have been previously used in Russian or western doctrinal writings. Special attention is devoted to investment protection treaties. The importance of publishing treaties as a condition of their application by Russian courts is explored. For the first time a detailed account is given of the constitutional history of treaty ratification in Russia, the outcome being that present constitutional practice is inconsistent with the drafting history of the relevant constitutional provisions. The volume gives attention to the role of the Russian Supreme Court in developing treaty practice through the issuance of "guiding documents" binding on lower courts, the reaction of the Russian Constitutional Court to judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, and the place of treaties as an integral part of the Russian legal system. Butler further explores the hierarchy of sources of law, together with other facets of Russian arbitral and judicial practice with respect to treaties and other sources of international law. He concludes with a consideration of the 'generally-recognized principles and norms of international law' and their role as part of the Russian system.

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Oxford University Press

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0192580795

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9780192580795

Masters of the Big House

Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century South

By: William Kauffman Scarborough

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Masters of the Big House

Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century South

By: William Kauffman Scarborough

William Kauffman Scarborough has produced a work of incomparable scope and depth, offering the challenge to see afresh one of the most powerful groups in American history -- the wealthiest southern planters who owned 250 or more slaves in the census years of 1850 and 1860. The identification and tabulation in every slaveholding state of these lords of economic, social, and political influence reveals a highly learned class of men who set the tone for southern society while also involving themselves in the wider world of capitalism. Scarborough examines the demographics of elite families, the educational philosophy and religiosity of the nabobs, gender relations in the Big House, slave management methods, responses to secession, and adjustment to the travails of Reconstruction and an alien postwar world.

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LSU Press

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0807156019

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9780807156018

Law and the Russian State

Russia’s Legal Evolution from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin

By: William E. Pomeranz

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Law and the Russian State

Russia’s Legal Evolution from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin

By: William E. Pomeranz

Russia is often portrayed as a regressive, even lawless country, and yet the Russian state has played a major role in shaping and experimenting with law as an instrument of power. In Law and the Russian State, William E. Pomeranz examines Russia's legal evolution from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin, addressing the continuities and disruptions of Russian law during the imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet. The book covers key themes, including: * Law and empire * Law and modernization * The politicization of law * The role of intellectuals and dissidents in mobilizing the law * The evolution of Russian legal institutions * The struggle for human rights * The rule-of-law * The quest to establish the law-based state It also analyzes legal culture and how Russians understand and use the law. With a detailed bibliography, this is an important text for anyone seeking a sophisticated understanding of how Russian society and the Russian state have developed in the last 350 years.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1474224245

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9781474224246

Book's by William E. Butler

My Best for the Kingdom: History and Autobiography of John Lowe Butler, a Mormon Frontiersman

My Best for the Kingdom: History and Autobiography of John Lowe Butler, a Mormon Frontiersman

The Law of Treaties in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States

The Law of Treaties in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States

Roots of Secession

Roots of Secession

International Law in the Russian Legal System

International Law in the Russian Legal System

Masters of the Big House

Masters of the Big House

Law and the Russian State

Law and the Russian State

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