This volume presents an Anglo-American research matrix radiating in various directions and transcending traditional academic boundaries and modes of perception. It offers a diverse and multi-facetted approach, covering topics from freemasonry to the documentaries of Michael Moore, from the Scottish best seller Trainspotting to German-American literature in the US, from anarchical traces in British novels to the influence of Laurence Sterne on Philipp Emanuel Bach, from postcolonial fiction to intercultural awareness, from Canadian literary beginnings to Casablanca Revisited. This collection of thirteen contributions reflects the scope, vitality and relevance of English and American Studies inside and outside the university.
The American topics of Moore's films, especially the exploitation of labor (Roger
and Me), gun violence (Bowling for Columbine) and the war on terror (Fahrenheit
9/11) are met in Germany with a new moral superiority emphasizing peace, the ...
Holdsworth, W.S. The Historians of Anglo-American Law. New York: Columbia University Press, 1928. 175 pp. Reprinted 1994 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 0-9630106-9-7. Cloth. $50. * In chronological order, beginning with Coke and Selden, Holdsworth surveys the work of the great practitioners of Anglo-American legal history. No one interested in the growth of Anglo-American law can fail to read with pleasure and profit this stimulating treatment of the development of legal history.
It was translated by Hastie in 1888 ; and a revised edition of it appears in the
Essays in Anglo-American Legal History.51 It deals at some length with the Anglo
- Saxon sources, and the Anglo-Norman sources down to the end of the
thirteenth ...
