Books by "R. Douglas Hurt"
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Until recently, American legal historiography focused almost solely on national government. Although much of Kansas law reflects U.S. law, the state courtês arbitrary powers over labor-management conflicts, yellow dog contracts, civil rights, gender issues, and domestic relations set precedents that reverberated around the country. Sunflower Justice is a pioneering work that presents the history of a state through the use of its supreme court decisions as evidence. ¾ R. Alton Lee traces Kansasês legal history through 150 years of records, shedding light on the stateês political, economic, and social history in this groundbreaking overview of Kansas legal cases and judicial biographies. Beginning with the territorial justices and continuing through the late twentieth century, R. Alton Lee covers the dispossession of Native Americansê land, the growth and impact of labor unions, antimonopoly cases against railroad and mining companies, a nine-year state ban on the movie Birth of a Nation, and implications and effects of desegregation, as well as the shooting of Dr. George Tiller for performing legal abortions. Because judicial decisions are not made in a vacuum, Lee presents each of the justices in the context of the era and their personal experiences before examining how their decisions shaped Kansas political, economic, social, and legal history.
A Centennial History of the State Historical Society of Missouri, 1898-1998
by Alan R. Havig
1998 · University of Missouri Press
Havig addresses such key topics as the growth of the society's collections; the reference library; the Western Historical Manuscript Collection; and an extensive assortment of visual art, including a famed collection of works by Thomas Hart Benton and George Caleb Bingham. Havig also examines the society's collaboration with the University of Missouri in obtaining physical space for its operations; its work with local groups in promoting special events such as Missouri's centennial in 1920-1921; the society's outstanding publications program; its role in the placement of historic markers along Missouri highways; its sponsorship of History Day; and numerous other endeavors made by the society to preserve and disseminate Missouri's rich heritage to the state's citizens. A Centennial History of the State Historical Society of Missouri, 1898-1998 will be of special value to professionals working in Missouri history and in the field of state and local history.
From 1900 to 1960, the introduction and development of four so-called urbanizing technologies–the telephone, automobile, radio, and electric light and power–transformed the rural United States. But did these new technologies revolutionize rural life in the ways modernizers predicted? And how exactly–and with what levels of resistance and acceptance–did this change take place? In Consumers in the Country Ronald R. Kline, avoiding the trap of technological determinism, explores the changing relationships among the Country Life professionals, government agencies, sales people, and others who promoted these technologies and the farm families who largely succeeded in adapting them to rural culture.
He wants to forget his past. She'll kill to secure her future. Together they could create a love that will heal them both. Selene is sent to the Earth Realm on a secret mission- which if she fails it could cost her her life. But with the Vampires now ruling the world, there are more vices than ever to distract her from her goal. Especially Neeman, whose hard body and piercing gaze awaken unfulfilled primal desires within her. Neeman has tried unsuccessfully to rid himself of the pain of his past. And when Selene's beautiful ethereal features attract too much attention, Neeman must literally pick up the feisty pixie and whisk her to safety before someone turns her into their most scrumptious meal. Selene would much rather have been to her own devices. But now forced to not only live but to also work together, the two must decide whether they will knock down the walls built between them and give in to the passion that sparks their hearts; or risk losing everything they've come to need most. Fans of J.R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood and Lara Adrian's Midnight Breed series will love this Hot Vampire Series. Scroll up to One Click now and begin your next Steamy Vampire Romance. Note: This is an adult Paranormal Romance which includes steamy sex, violence, torture, and adult themes.
Lewis Deathstalker has succeeded at the impossible: he's found Owen Deathstalker, presumed dead for the last two hundred years. Owen's return strikes a crippling blow to the Empire as his military joins the rebellion. But Owen himself has a larger mission. He — and according to prophecy, he alone — must travel back in time to stop the steadily advancing Terror before the galaxy is destroyed, leaving his descendant Lewis in command of the growing rebel army. Even as Emperor Finn Durandal's empire is on the brink of annihilation from the Terror, he will do anything, no matter how evil, to retain power. Lewis is equally determined to take Finn down and restore the rightful ruler to the throne... Note from Publisher: This book was originally published as Book 8 in the Deathstalker series.