Legal History Books

New and Published Books

1. The Rise of Planning in Industrial America, 1865-1914

   By Richard Adelstein

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic History

   Central economic planning is often associated with failed state socialism, and modern capitalism celebrated as its antithesis. This book shows that central planning is not always, or even primarily, a state enterprise, and that the giant industrial corporations that dominated the American economy...

   Published March 25th 2012 by Routledge
2. A Discourse on Domination in Mandate Palestine

   Imperialism, Property and Insurgency

   By Zeina B. Ghandour

   British discourse during the Mandate, with its unremitting convergence on the problematic ‘native question’, and which rested on racial and cultural theories and presumptions, as well as on certain givens drawn from the British class system, has been taken for granted by historians. The validity of...

   Published July 25th 2011 by Routledge-Cavendish