books by Stuart Banner (regulation indigenous securities)

books by Stuart Banner

books:

Who Owns the Sky?: The Struggle to Control Airspace from the Wright Brothers On
Stuart Banner

Harvard University Press, 2008

In the summer of 1900, a zeppelin stayed aloft for a full eighteen minutes above Lake Constance and mankind found itself at the edge of a new world. Where many saw hope and the dawn of another era, one man saw a legal conundrum. Charles C. Moore, an obscure New York lawyer, began an inquiry that Stuart Banner returns to over a century later: in the age of airplanes, who can lay claim to the heavens? The debate that ensued in the early ...

The Death Penalty: An American History

8 reviews
Stuart Banner

Harvard University Press, 2003

A Superb, Even-handed History of Capital Punishment
It's a testament to the balance found in Stuart Banner's history of the death penalty in the U.S. that I'm still unsure where he stands on the controversial issue. If I had to take a position, I would say that he's probably against it, but even after reading his three-hundred page book I can't be sure. That's a remarkable feat for a subject matter that immediately unbalances many people. But "The ...

Anglo-American Securities Regulation: Cultural and Political Roots, 1690-1860
Stuart Banner

Cambridge University Press, 1998

This book examines the regulation of the earliest securities markets in England and the United States, from their origins in the 1690s through the 1850s. Professor Banner argues that during the reign of Queen Anne a complex and moderately effective body of regulatory control was already extant, reflecting widespread Anglo-American attitudes toward securities speculation. He uses traditional legal materials as well as a broad range of nonlegal ...

Possessing the Pacific: Land, Settlers, and Indigenous People from Australia to Alaska
Stuart Banner

Harvard University Press, 2007

During the nineteenth century, British and American settlers acquired a vast amount of land from indigenous people throughout the Pacific, but in no two places did they acquire it the same way. Stuart Banner tells the story of colonial settlement in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga, Hawaii, California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska. Today, indigenous people own much more land in some of these places than in others. And ...

How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier

2 reviews
Stuart Banner

Belknap Press, 2007

Exceedingly Well Written
Stuart Banner has taken a complex, 400+ year history of American Indian Land Acquisition and has abstracted the legal basis and the prevailing sociocultural worldviews of settlers, governments and aborigines to produce a work that we, today, can use to understand "How the Indians Lost Their Lands." This is a must read for anyone who has any official involvement with Native American Indians, or ...