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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Nahum Goldmann	Raphael Patai	"This volume critically examines the State of Israel forty years after its establishment. Topics include the integration of Middle Eastern Jews in Israeli society, the Arab minority in Israel, the di…	OL1305044W
Estate of Dr. J. M. Best	Sam Houston	This is a report on the claim of Dr. J.M. Best's estate filing suit against the United States for condemning property during the Civil War. His home was considered to be too close to Fort Anderson an…	OL15480603W
Argument of R. J. Atkinson ...	R. J. Atkinson	A trial of property rights in West Virginia while it was still Virginia. Insurection and the Civil War would have made paying the owner rent unessesary but many things are argued including that it wa…	OL15480645W
Justice in blue and gray	Stephen C. Neff	Overview: Stephen Neff offers the first comprehensive study of the wide range of legal issues arising from the American Civil War, many of which resonate in debates to this day. Neff examines the law…	OL15581363W
Korematsu v. United States	Susan Dudley Gold	"Describes the historical context of the Korematsu versus United States Supreme Court Case, detailing the claims made by both sides and the outcome, and including excerpts from the Supreme Court just…	OL1919135W
Hold Everything Dear	John Berger	John Berger occupies a unique position in the international cultural landscape: artist, filmmaker, poet, philosopher, novelist, essayist, he is also a deeply thoughtful political activist. In Hold E…	OL1980222W
Response, responsibility and renewal	Jonathan Dewar,Mike DeGagné,Gregory Younging	This is the second installment in a two-volume set produced by the Aboriginal Healing Foundation. This volume contains personal reflections on the opportunities and challenges posed by the truth and …	OL21410996W
Finlands ryska fordringar	Mikael Korhonen	vi, 332 p. : 21 cm	OL2262154W
Negotiating the deal	Christopher Alcantara	Using in-depth interviews with Indigenous, federal, provincial, and territorial officials, Christopher Alcantara compares the experiences of four Aboriginal groups: the Kwanlin Dün First Nation (with…	OL23119014W
The victim's fortune	John Authers,Richard Wolffe	Half a century after World War II, a small group of Americans launched a campaign to confront the world with the fact that many assets looted by the Nazis had never been returned to their owners. Thi…	OL24859123W
L'Or nazi	Tom Bower	Tente de faire la lumière sur la complicité au plus haut niveau politique et sur les réseaux d'intérêts tissés entre la Suisse et le IIIe Reich dans le pillage et le recel des biens juifs et des pays…	OL27959551W
Closing the books	Charles Weiss	"A growing number of recent studies have attempted to set the record straight about the Holocaust, the most horrendous atrocity in modern history. First the Swiss banks were accused of silently hoard…	OL33108172W
Permission to develop	Jerry Patrick White	x, 281 p. : 23 cm	OL3998103W
Native rights and the boundaries of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory	Kent McNeil	An attempt to define the exact boundaries of Rupert's Land and the North-western Territory.	OL4631448W
The French assault on American shipping, 1793-1813	Greg H. Williams	"During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras, French privateers and cruisers legally and illegally took cargo from merchant vessels. Filed by descendants of anyone who had a financial interes…	OL4971449W
The Oka crisis	John Ciaccia	356 p. ; 22 cm	OL7826970W
Take My Land, Take My Life	Donald Craig Mitchell	"Take My Land, Take My Life concludes the story of the 134-year history of the U.S. government's relations with Alaska's Indian, Eskimo, and Aleut peoples that Don Mitchell's first book, Sold America…	OL8908192W