Peter Charles Hoffer is coauthor of Impeachment in America, 1635-1805.
26 Ebooks by Peter Charles Hoffer
Peter Charles Hoffer: The Law’s Conscience
The Law’s Conscience is a history of equity in Anglo-American juris-prudence from the inception of the chancellor’s court in medieval England to the recent civil rights and affirmative action …
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€32.99
Peter Charles Hoffer: The Historians’ Paradox
Hoffer argues for a new methodological philosophy of history that mitigates fallibility and paradox How do we know what happened in the past? We cannot go back, and no amount of historical data can e …
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€30.99
N. E. H. Hull & Williamjames Hoffer: The Abortion Rights Controversy in America
Beginning with the introduction of abortion law in the nineteenth century, this reader includes important documents from nearly two hundred years of debate over abortion. These legal briefs, oral …
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€32.99
Peter Charles Hoffer: Clio among the Muses
History helps us understand change, provides clues to our own identity, and hones our moral sense. But history is not a stand-alone discipline. Indeed, its own history is incomplete without recogniti …
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€33.99
Peter Charles Hoffer & Williamjames Hull Hoffer: The Clamor of Lawyers
The Clamor of Lawyers explores a series of extended public pronouncements that British North American colonial lawyers crafted between 1761 and 1776. Most, though not all, were composed outside of th …
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€31.99
Peter Charles Hoffer: Rutgers v. Waddington
Once the dust of the Revolution settled, the problem of reconciling the erstwhile warring factions arose, and as is often the case in the aftermath of violent revolutions, the matter made its way …
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€24.32
Peter Charles Hoffer & Williamjames Hull Hoffer: Supreme Court
For more than two centuries, the U.S. Supreme Court has provided a battleground for nearly every controversial issue in our nations history. Now a veteran team of talented historiansincluding the …
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€33.78
Peter Charles Hoffer & Williamjames Hull Hoffer: Clamor of Lawyers
The Clamor of Lawyers explores a series of extended public pronouncements that British North American colonial lawyers crafted between 1761 and 1776. Most, though not all, were composed outside of …
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€188.07
Peter Charles Hoffer: Law and People in Colonial America
An essential, rigorous, and lively introduction to the beginnings of American law.How did American colonists transform British law into their own? What were the colonies’ first legal institutions, …
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€36.18
Hoffer Peter Charles Hoffer: Search for Justice
The civil rights era was a time of pervasive change in American political and social life. Among the decisive forces driving change were lawyers, who wielded the power of law to resolve competing …
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€37.20
Peter Charles Hoffer & N. E. H. Hull: Roe v. Wade
Few Supreme Court decisions have stirred up as much controversy, vitriolic debate, and even violence as
Roe v. Wade in 1973. Four decades later, it remains a touchstone for the culture wars in the …
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€32.99
Peter Charles Hoffer: Daniel Webster and the Unfinished Constitution
Daniel Webster and the Unfinished Constitution reveals Webster as the foremost constitutional lawyer of his day. Peter Charles Hoffer builds a persuasive case that Webster was more than a skilled …
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€54.99
Peter Charles Hoffer: Prelude to Revolution
"A fine study . . . by a prolific scholar who adeptly restores the Salem Gunpowder Raid to its rightful place in the history of the American Revolution." -New England Quarterly On April 19, …
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€18.60
Peter Charles Hoffer: John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835-1850
Examining the congressional debates on antislavery petitions before the Civil War.Passed by the House of Representatives at the start of the 1836 session, the gag rule rejected all petitions against …
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€20.67
Peter Charles Hoffer: Sensory Worlds in Early America
Honorable Mention, History Category, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Awards, Association of American Publishers Over the past half-century, historians have greatly enriched our understanding of …
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€31.67
Peter Charles Hoffer: Brave New World
The distinguished historian "does a remarkable job" with this lively and comprehensive textbook-now in a new, expanded edition (Daniel P. Kotzin, Teaching History).The Brave New World …
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€18.71
Peter Charles Hoffer: Seward’s Law
In Seward’s Law , Peter Charles Hoffer argues that William H. Seward’s legal practice in Auburn, New York, informed his theory of relational rights—a theory that demonstrated how the country could en …
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€31.99
Peter Charles Hoffer: Seward’s Law
In Seward’s Law, Peter Charles Hoffer argues that William H. Seward’s legal practice in Auburn, New York, informed his theory of relational rights-a theory that demonstrated how the country could end …
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€187.15
Peter Charles (Research Professor of History, University of Georgia) Hoffer: Brave New World
A lively synthesis of early American history, now in its third edition.
The Brave New World covers the entire span of early American history, from 30, 000 years before Europeans landed on North Ame …
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€41.13
John Lofton: Denmark Vesey’s Revolt
In 1822, Denmark Vesey was found guilty of plotting an insurrection-what would have been the biggest slave uprising in U.S. history. A free man of color, he was hanged along with 34 other African …
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€18.77
John Lofton: Denmark Vesey’s Revolt
In 1822, Denmark Vesey was found guilty of plotting an insurrection-what would have been the biggest slave uprising in U.S. history. A free man of color, he was hanged along with 34 other African …
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€18.73
Peter Charles Hoffer: Law’s Conscience
The Law’s Conscience is a history of equity in Anglo-American juris-prudence from the inception of the chancellor’s court in medieval England to the recent civil rights and affirmative action …
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€37.60
Peter Charles Hoffer & Williamjames Hoffer: Abortion Rights Controversy in America
Beginning with the introduction of abortion law in the nineteenth century, this reader includes important documents from nearly two hundred years of debate over abortion. These legal briefs, oral …
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€37.44
Peter Charles Hoffer: Revolution and Regeneration
Revolution and Regeneration is a book about the aging of the “young men of 1776, ” the men who came to adulthood with the American Revolution, found their identity merged with the new republic they h …
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€134.99
Peter Charles Hoffer: Reading Law Forward
In the current legal climate where “everyone is an originalist, ” conventional wisdom suggests that judges merely find law, rather than make it. Orthodox common-law jurisprudence makes fidelity to th …
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€49.99
Peter Charles Hoffer: The Supreme Court Footnote
A history of the humble footnote and its impact on the highest court in the land In May 2022, a seismic legal event occurred as the draft majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health was leake …
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€32.99
