03823nam 2200613 a 450 991095649520332120200520144314.0978067426297306742629729780674034198067403419810.4159/9780674034198(CKB)1000000000805505(SSID)ssj0000122337(PQKBManifestationID)11135810(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000122337(PQKBWorkID)10123854(PQKB)11203565(MiAaPQ)EBC3300639(Au-PeEL)EBL3300639(CaPaEBR)ebr10328817(OCoLC)923112557(DE-B1597)589941(DE-B1597)9780674034198(OCoLC)1294423282(Perlego)1133297(EXLCZ)99100000000080550520031016d2004 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrCircles and lines the shape of life in early America /John DemosCambridge, MA Harvard University Press2004xi, 98 p. illThe William E. Massey, Sr. lectures in the history of American civilization ;2002Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780674013247 0674013247 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Traditional World and the Logic of Circularity -- 2. The Transitional World and the Power of Novelty -- 3. The Modern World and the Rise of the Linear -- Notes -- IndexIn this intimate, engaging book, John Demos offers an illuminating portrait of how colonial Americans, from the first settlers to the postrevolutionary generation, viewed their life experiences. He also offers an invaluable inside look into the craft of a master social historian as he unearths--in sometimes unexpected places--fragments of evidence that help us probe the interior lives of people from the faraway past. The earliest settlers lived in a traditional world of natural cycles that shaped their behavior: day and night; seasonal rhythms; the lunar cycle; the life cycle itself. Indeed, so basic were these elements that "almost no one felt a need to comment on them." Yet he finds cyclical patterns--in the seasonal foods they ate, in the spike in marriages following the autumn harvest. Witchcraft cases reveal the different emotional reactions to day versus night, as accidental mishaps in the light become fearful nighttime mysteries. During the transitional world of the American Revolution, people began to see their society in newer terms but seemed unable or unwilling to come to terms with that novelty. Americans became new, Demos points out, before they fully understood what it meant. Their cyclical frame of reference was coming unmoored, giving way to a linear world view in early nineteenth-century America that is neatly captured by Kentucky doctor Daniel Drake's description of the chronography of his life. In his meditation on these three worlds, Demos brilliantly demonstrates how large historical forces are reflected in individual lives. With the imaginative insights and personable touch that we have come to expect from this fine chronicler of the human condition, Circles and Lines is vintage John Demos.William E. Massey, Sr. lectures in the history of American civilization ;2002.United StatesSocial life and customsTo 1775United StatesSocial life and customs1783-1865973Demos John133952MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910956495203321Circles and lines4364297UNINA04615nam 22006495 450 991015166470332120230810190248.09783319431352331943135810.1007/978-3-319-43135-2(CKB)3710000000952831(DE-He213)978-3-319-43135-2(MiAaPQ)EBC4743081(PPN)228321301(Perlego)3492494(EXLCZ)99371000000095283120161114d2016 u| 0engurnn#008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPrivacy and the American Constitution New Rights Through Interpretation of an Old Text /by William C. Heffernan1st ed. 2016.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2016.1 online resource (IX, 348 p.)Includes index.9783319431345 331943134X 1. Constitutional Afterthoughts -- 2. The Right to Wear a Hat-and Other Afterthoughts -- 3. Developmental Supplementation -- 4. From Property to Privacy -- 5. The Emergence of Privacy Norms in Nineteenth Century America -- 6. The Nineteenth Century Court Reads the Eighteenth Century Text -- 7. From Thoughts and Beliefs to Emotions and Sensations -- 8. An Exercise in Supplementation that Failed -- 9. Ambitious Supplementation -- 10. Unobtrusive Supplementation -- 11. Informational Privacy Imperiled -- 12. Reappraising the Constitutional Past.This book explains a paradox in American constitutional law: how a right not discussed during the ratification debates at Philadelphia and not mentioned in the text has become a core component of modern freedom. Rather, privacy is a constitutional afterthought that has gained force through modern interpretations of an old text. Heffernan defends privacy rights against originalist objections to its inclusion in modern constitutional doctrine, analyzes the structure of privacy claims, and provides a blueprint for protecting privacy against government incursion. The book will appeal to a wide audience of students and researchers of criminal procedure, constitutional history, law-and-society, and sociology of law. Lawyers will find this book extremely valuable in addressing the statutory issues associated with modern privacy law. At last, a book about constitutional interpretation that speaks plain English and makes sense. It's the best work I know on the subject, yet that subject is not the one it's mostly about. The book mostly tells the story of the constitutional right to privacy and how it emerged from provisions that at the outset were not much about privacy at all. On that subject, the book is definitive. It's also fascinating, probing, engaging, insightful, and wonderfully presented. Privacy and the American Constitution is a stellar contribution to knowledge. Albert W. Alschuler, Julius Kreeger of Law and Criminology, Emeritus, University of Chicago A powerful and innovate contribution to constitutional law. Not only does Heffernan offer us a fascinating and persuasive account of how modern constitutional rights grew out of the personal space offered to us in an earlier era, he also explains why privacy rights deserve the newfound importance they have in our modern jurisprudence, based upon the same Madisonian approach to constitutional interpretation that justifies other central parts of modern constitutional law. Marc Jonathan Blitz, Alan Joseph Bennett Professor of Law, Oklahoma City University School of Law.CriminologyConstitutional lawCrimeSociological aspectsUnited StatesHistoryAmericaPolitics and governmentCriminology TheoryConstitutional LawCrime and SocietyUS HistoryAmerican PoliticsCriminology.Constitutional law.CrimeSociological aspects.United StatesHistory.AmericaPolitics and government.Criminology Theory.Constitutional Law.Crime and Society.US History.American Politics.342.730858Heffernan William Cauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut784696BOOK9910151664703321Privacy and the American Constitution2534934UNINA