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Product Description: Challenging traditional accounts of the development of American private law, Peter Karsten offers an important new perspective on the making of the rules of common law and equity in nineteenth-century courts. The central story of that era, he finds, was a struggle between a jurisprudence of the head, which adhered strongly to English precedent, and a jurisprudence of the heart, a humane concern for the rights of parties rendered weak by inequitable rules and a willingness to create exceptions or altogether new rules on their behalf...read more

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9780807823408 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Challenging traditional accounts of the development of American private law, Peter Karsten offers an important new perspective on the making of the rules of common law and equity in nineteenth-century courts.

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9781469629056 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, December 1, 2015, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Challenging traditional accounts of the development of American private law, Peter Karsten offers an important new perspective on the making of the rules of common law and equity in nineteenth-century courts.

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Product Description: This book explores the three-way struggle between the British colonists who settled North America, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa; the British government and its U.S. and Canadian federal government successors; and the indigenous peoples of the settled regions...read more

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9780521099196, titled "Between Law and Custom: High and Low Legal Cultures in the Lands of the British Diaspora - The United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, 1600-1900" | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, November 24, 2008), cover price $69.99 | About this edition: This book explores the three-way struggle between the British colonists who settled North America, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa; the British government and its U.

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Product Description: Now in a new edition with extensive updates by Peter Karsten, The Magic Mirror chronicles American law from its English origins to the present. It offers comprehensive treatment of twentieth-century developments and sets American law and legal institutions in the broad context of social, economic, and political events, weaving together themes from the history of both constitutional and private law...read more

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9780195081794 | 2 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, May 21, 2008), cover price $69.95 | About this edition: Now in a new edition with extensive updates by Peter Karsten, The Magic Mirror chronicles American law from its English origins to the present.

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Product Description: When this book first appeared in 1972, Karsten, a former naval officer, was taken to task for its portrayal of the Naval Academy and the officer corps. Although his conclusions riled more than a few senior officers, no one denied the significance of the study, and it was named Best Book of the Year by Phi Alpha Theta, the national history honorary society...read more

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9781591144281 | Reprint edition (Naval Inst Pr, April 1, 2008), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: When this book first appeared in 1972, Karsten, a former naval officer, was taken to task for its portrayal of the Naval Academy and the officer corps.

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Product Description: The most comprehensive and current book on its topic, this handbook provides both novice and experienced aviculturists with detailed information and techniques for managing and breeding pekin robins and other small softbill birds...read more

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9780888396068 | Hancock House Pub Ltd, June 1, 2007, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: The most comprehensive and current book on its topic, this handbook provides both novice and experienced aviculturists with detailed information and techniques for managing and breeding pekin robins and other small softbill birds.

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By Peter Karsten (editor)

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9780761930976 | Sage Pubns, November 18, 2005, cover price $540.00

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Product Description: This book explores the three-way struggle between the British colonists who settled North America, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa; the British government and its U.S. and Canadian federal government successors; and the indigenous peoples of the settled regions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780521792837 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 18, 2002, cover price $155.00 | About this edition: This book explores the three-way struggle between the British colonists who settled North America, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa; the British government and its U.

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Product Description: First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
By Peter Karsten (editor)

Hardcover:

9780815329794 | Routledge, February 1, 1999, cover price $695.00 | About this edition: First Published in 1999.

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Product Description: List price Amazon - $145.00.Volume 4 in the series: The Military and Society. "Volume IV of a five-volume series which addresses the recruiting, training, and motivating of military systems as well as those systems' interactions with civilian governments and with the greater society...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Peter Karsten (editor)

Hardcover:

9780815329787 | Routledge, November 1, 1998, cover price $165.00 | About this edition: List price Amazon - $145.

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Product Description: three million may have failed to register (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Peter Karsten (editor)

Hardcover:

9780815329756 | Routledge, November 1, 1998, cover price $185.00 | About this edition: three million may have failed to register

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Product Description: First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Peter Karsten (editor)

Hardcover:

9780815329763 | Routledge, November 1, 1998, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: First Published in 1999.

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Product Description: Military & Sociology
By Peter Karsten (editor)

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9780815332374 | Routledge, November 1, 1998, cover price $185.00 | About this edition: Military & Sociology

Product Description: Two decades ago, historical practice in the United States and Europe was challenged by social historians with behaviorist approaches which diverged dramatically from the discipline's traditional preferences for textual evidence. Such accounts explained occurrences in terms of individual intention and a narrative presentation of results...read more

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9780814746271 | New York Univ Pr, December 1, 1991, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Two decades ago historical practice in the United States and Europe was challenged by social historians with "behaviourist" approaches.

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9780814746417 | New York Univ Pr, February 1, 1993, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Two decades ago, historical practice in the United States and Europe was challenged by social historians with behaviorist approaches which diverged dramatically from the discipline's traditional preferences for textual evidence.

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By Peter Karsten (editor)

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9780029191903 | Rev sub edition (Free Pr, October 1, 1986), cover price $28.99 | About this edition: No Description Available

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Product Description: The threat to use military force is a matter that commands immediate attention from many segments of government. Karsten, Howell, and Allen systematically analyze statistically significant numbers of actual cases to discover the determinants of success or failure of the threat to employ military force...read more

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9780313238253 | Reprint edition (Praeger Pub Text, January 1, 1984), cover price $64.00 | About this edition: The threat to use military force is a matter that commands immediate attention from many segments of government.

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Product Description: When this book first appeared in 1972, Karsten, a former naval officer, was taken to task for its portrayal of the Naval Academy and the officer corps. Although his conclusions riled more than a few senior officers, no one denied the significance of the study, and it was named Best Book of the Year by Phi Alpha Theta, the national history honorary society...read more

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9780029170700 | Free Pr, May 1, 1972, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: When this book first appeared in 1972, Karsten, a former naval officer, was taken to task for its portrayal of the Naval Academy and the officer corps.

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