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The Great Catastrophe of My Life

Author: Thomas E. Buckley, S.J.

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2003-11-03

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 0807861480

From the end of the Revolution until 1851, the Virginia legislature granted most divorces in the state. It granted divorces rarely, however, turning down two-thirds of those who petitioned for them. Men and women who sought release from unhappy marriages faced a harsh legal system buttressed by the political, religious, and communal cultures of southern life. Through the lens of this hostile environment, Thomas Buckley explores with sympathy the lives and legal struggles of those who challenged it. Based on research in almost 500 divorce files, The Great Catastrophe of My Life involves a wide cross-section of Virginians. Their stories expose southern attitudes and practices involving a spectrum of issues from marriage and family life to gender relations, interracial sex, adultery, desertion, and domestic violence. Although the oppressive legal regime these husbands and wives battled has passed away, the emotions behind their efforts to dissolve the bonds of marriage still resonate strongly.

The Great Catastrophe of My Life

Author: S. J. E. Buckley (Thomas)

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Published: 2002

Total Pages: 0

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Echoes of the Great Catastrophe

Author: Panayotis League

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2021-09-13

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 0472132687

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A multi-sited exploration of the musical legacy of the Anatolian Greek diaspora

Law and Catastrophe

Author: Austin Sarat

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2007-06-18

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780804768344

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The study of catastrophe is a growth industry. Today, cosmologists scan the heavens for asteroids of the kind that smashed into earth some ninety million years ago, leading to the swift extinction of the dinosaurs. Climatologists create elaborate models of the chaotic weather and vast flooding that will result from the continued buildup of greenhouse gases in the planet's atmosphere. Terrorist experts and homeland security consultants struggle to prepare for a wide range of possible biological, chemical, and radiological attacks: aerated small pox virus spread by a crop duster, botulism dumped into an urban reservoir, a dirty bomb detonated in a city center. Yet, strangely, law's role in the definition, identification, prevention, and amelioration of catastrophe has been largely neglected. The relationship between law and other limiting conditions—such as states of emergency—has been the subject of rich and growing literature. By contrast, little has been written about law and catastrophe. In devoting a volume to the subject, the essays' authors sketch the contours of a relatively fresh, yet crucial, terrain of inquiry. Law and Catastrophe begins the work of developing a jurisprudence of catastrophe.