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UNINA9910452468503321 |
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Autore |
Pitts Yvonne |
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Titolo |
Family, law, and inheritance in America : a social and legal history of nineteenth-century Kentucky / / Yvonne Pitts, Purdue University [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
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1-107-24176-6 |
1-139-88973-7 |
1-107-25127-3 |
1-139-56499-4 |
1-107-24795-0 |
1-107-25044-7 |
1-107-24878-7 |
1-107-24961-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiii, 203 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Cambridge historical studies in American law and society |
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Inheritance and succession - Kentucky - 19th century |
Wills - Kentucky - 19th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-200) and index. |
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1. 'Parental justice': inheritance and obligation in families -- 2. 'My black family': manumissions and freedom in inheritance disputes -- 3. Arbiters of sanity: medical experts and jurists -- 4. Physical impairments and degenerate minds: the body as evidence -- 5. A special power: women's testamentary capacity. |
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Yvonne Pitts explores inheritance practices by focusing on nineteenth-century testamentary capacity trials in Kentucky in which disinherited family members challenged relatives' wills. These disappointed heirs claimed that their departed relative lacked the capacity required to write a valid will. These inheritance disputes criss-crossed a variety of legal and cultural terrains, including ordinary people's understandings of what constituted insanity and justice, medical experts' attempts to infuse law with science, and the independence claims of women. Pitts |
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uncovers the contradictions in the body of law that explicitly protected free will while simultaneously reinforcing the primacy of blood in mediating claims to inherited property. By anchoring the study in local communities and the texts of elite jurists, Pitts demonstrates that 'capacity' was a term laden with legal meaning and competing communal values about family, race relations and rationality. These concepts evolved as Kentucky transitioned from a conflicted border state with slaves to a developing free-labor, industrializing economy. |
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UNINA9910793935803321 |
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Autore |
al-Abedi Haidar K. |
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Equivocation in the theatre of the absurd : discourse analysis / / Haidar K. Al-Abedi |
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Berlin : , : Logos Verlag Berlin, , [2015] |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiii, 263 pages) : illustrations |
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Theater of the absurd - History and criticism |
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Discourse analysis, Literary |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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PublicationDate: 20150706 |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-261). |
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Long description: This book is the first attempt made to analyse the equivocal language of the Absurd Theatre via pure linguistic models carefully employed and illustrated by a wide range of significant examples, questions, and discussions. It provides the multiple tools necessary for understanding this language from various perspectives. Dr. Haidar K. Al-Abedi was Lecturer in English at University of Baghdad, Al-Muthana University, and Al-Israa University College. ``Haidar has to be complimented at the outset for selecting a very interesting topic . . . It is not surprising that a person from Iraq – and the ravages the |
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country is sadly facing these days – is interested in an area which has its significant socio-cultural origin in the ravages of the World War II. The scope of the research also effectively covers the entire school of the British exponents of the Absurd Theatre. In fact, the first chapter discusses the central keyword – equivocation – in scholarly detail. There is an interesting discussion about the various types of equivocation from chapter two to five quite elaborately conducted by the researcher.'' Dr. Sanjay Mukherjee, Saurashtra University, India ``This book is an elaborate analysis of a number of plays written by different dramatists. By elucidating the equivocal verbal and non-verbal communication used by characters, the book addresses a wide range of social, religious, cultural, and political themes and issues which appeal to its audience/readers and are involved in constructing meaning through its peculiar use of language.'' Dr. Adel Saleh, Wasit University, Iraq |
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