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William B. Meyer
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Law and History Review. :1-21
Before 1859, the right of any member of the public to abate a public nuisance existed unchallenged in American law as a judicially recognized form of popular justice. In that year, the decision in Brown v. Perkins, authored by Massachusetts Chief Jus
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William B. Meyer
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Geographical Review. :1-17
Autor:
William B Meyer
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American Journal of Legal History. 62:215-236
The leading police power case of Lawton v. Steele, decided by the US Supreme Court in 1894, offers insight into the question of judicial class bias during the decades following the Civil War. Conflict arose in rural northern New York State over restr
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William B. Meyer
This revealing book synthesizes research from many fields to offer the first complete history of the roles played by weather and climate in American life from colonial times to the present. Author William B. Meyer characterizes weather events as neut
Autor:
William B Meyer
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American Journal of Legal History. 60:48-75
The decision of the New York Court of Appeals in Riggs v. Palmer (1889) is remarkable for the mass of discussion about a variety of fundamental issues that it has generated. Elmer Palmer was convicted of murdering his grandfather Francis, and the cou
Autor:
Jeanne X. Kasperson, Kirstin Dow, Samuel J. Ratick, George E. Clark, Susanne C. Moser, Harry E. Schwarz, Weigen Jin, Srinivas Emani, William B. Meyer, Roger E. Kasperson
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The Social Contours of Risk ISBN: 9781849772556
Social Contours of Risk ISBN: 9781849772563
Social Contours of Risk ISBN: 9781849772563
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https://doi.org/10.4324/9781849772556-16
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781849772556-16
Autor:
William B. Meyer
Publikováno v:
Journal of Historical Geography. 65:1-8
The thesis of first effective settlement, stated by Wilbur Zelinsky in 1973 and by several of his contemporaries under other labels, has been an important one in academic research examining the role of early occupance in shaping the later characteris
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William B. Meyer
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Geographical Review. 109:131-145
The phenomenon of urban primacy has been much studied in the social sciences since Mark Jefferson introduced the term in 1939. It is less well recognized that many European and American writers of ...
Autor:
William B. Meyer
In 1882, Elmer Palmer was convicted of poisoning his grandfather Francis in rural northern New York State. In a famous decision in 1889, the New York Court of Appeals denied Elmer the right to inherit from Francis, even though the statute governing w