Peter Charles Hoffer, Author . Public Affairs $26 (400p) ISBN 978-1-58648-244-2
An adviser to the American Historical Association on plagiarism, Hoffer focuses on the four most notorious recent cases of professional historical misconduct in this useful and reasonably argued study: Michael Bellesiles's manufacturing of data...
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Peter Charles Hoffer, Author . Public Affairs $26 (460p) ISBN 978-1-58648-355-5
The "best-known conflagration in our nation's history," the 1871 Chicago fire was ignited not by a cow kicking over a lantern but by two laborers having a careless smoke in a barn. The fiasco enriched the moguls who redeveloped the city...
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Peter Charles Hoffer. New York Univ., $29 (200p) ISBN 978-1-4798-3283-5
History “stands on the shoulders of its companions in the humanities and social sciences,” writes historian Hoffer (The Historian’s Paradox ) in this brief but thought-provoking series of essays on the vigor and necessity of historical study. The...
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Peter Charles Hoffer, Author, Williamjames Hull Hoffer, Author, N. E. H. Hull, Author . Univ. Press of Kansas $34.95 (491p) ISBN 978-0-7006-1538-4
How did the Supreme Court handle Indian rights in the early 19th century? What factors influenced the Court's decision in Roe
v. Wade?
This timely survey looks at the intellectual, social, cultural, economic and political events that have...
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Peter Charles Hoffer. New York Univ, $30 (240p) ISBN 978-1-479-83022-0
In this accessible account, historian Hoffer (Clio Among the Muses) ventures into the crowded history of the Supreme Court via a novel approach: the court’s use of footnotes. He demonstrates that justices have often turned footnotes into powerful...
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Peter Charles Hoffer. Rowman & Littlefield, $35 (224p) ISBN 978-1-5381-1657-9
In this engaging and comprehensive survey of American history via the courtroom, legal historian Hoffer (Uncivil Warriors: The Lawyers’ Civil War) persuasively argues that intense litigation signals a period of social upheaval, “a temporary...
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