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From a brilliant young legal scholar comes this sweeping history of American ideas of belonging and citizenship, told through the stories of fourteen legal cases that helped to shape our nation. Spanning three centuries, Black Trials details the legal challenges and struggles that helped define the ever-shifting identity of blacks in America. From the well-known cases of Plessy v. Ferguson and the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings to the more obscure trial of Joseph Hanno, an eighteenth-century free black man accused of murdering his wife and bringing smallpox to Boston, Weiner recounts the essential dramas of American identity-illuminating where our conception of minority rights has come from and where it might go. Significant and enthralling, these are the cases that forced the courts and the country to reconsider what it means to be black in America, and Mark Weiner demonstrates their lasting importance for our society. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Abstract
This essay reconstructs the story of the 1963 English translation of Sebastian "Wastl" Mariner's classic mountain rescue manual Neuzeitliche Bergrettungstechnik, published by the Alpenverein in 1949, by two members of the Seattle-based Mountain Rescue Council. Both translators, Otto T. Trott and Kurt G. Beam, were refugees of National Socialism. In tracing the story of Mountain Rescue Techniques, the essay suggests some of the ironies that attended the historical process through which German and Austrian Alpinism gradually lost its Nazi associations. The essay also offers a case study in the growing field of the history of migrant knowledge.

Weiner reviews two books by Paul W. Kahn: Political Theology: Four New Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty (2011) and Finding Ourselves at the Movies: Philosophy for a New Generation (2013). Adapted from the source document.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Between the Foreign and the Domestic: The Doctrine of Territorial Incorporation, Invented and Reinvented -- I. HISTORY AND EXPANSION -- Some Common Ground -- Teutonic Constitutionalism: The Role of Ethno-Juridical Discourse in the Spanish-American War -- A Constitution Led by the Flag: The Insular Cases and the Metaphor of Incorporation -- Deconstructing Colonialism: The ''Unincorporated Territory'' as a Category of Domination -- II. EXPANSION AND CONSTITUTION -- Installing the Insular Cases into the Canon of Constitutional Law -- Fulfilling Manifest Destiny: Conquest, Race, and the Insular Cases -- U.S. Territorial Expansion: Extended Republicanism versus Hyperextended Expansionism -- Constitutionalism and Individual Rights in the Territories -- III. CONSTITUTION AND MEMBERSHIP -- Partial Membership and Liberal Political Theory -- Injustice According to Law: The Insular Cases and Other Oddities -- One Hundred Years of Solitude: Puerto Rico's American Century -- A Tale of Distorting Mirrors: One Hundred Years of Puerto Rico's Sovereignty Imbroglio -- IV. MEMBERSHIP AND RECOGNITION -- Law, Language, and Statehood: The Role of English in the Great State of Puerto Rico -- Puerto Rican National Identity and United States Pluralism -- Puerto Rican Separatism and United States Federalism -- The Bitter Roots of Puerto Rican Citizenship -- A Note on the Insular Cases -- Notes on Contributors -- Index