Reviews for Future Interests (Law School Legends)

The average rating for Future Interests (Law School Legends) based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-09-15 00:00:00 Sean Ross This is a collection of fourteen essays on Missouri women throughout history covering the years of 1750 through 1949. While some essays focus on specific women like Emily Newell Blair, Fannie Cook, and Virginia Minor, other essays focus on groups of women and social issues that affected women like freed women after emancipation and scandalous Sedalia prostitutes in the 1800s. The book also covers different areas of the state to give the reader an understanding of every corner of Missouri. This book would mostly appeal to those from Missouri or those looking to get some history of the state.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-04-20 00:00:00 Atheesan Arudsothy I can't speak about the first edition, but the second edition of Kenneth Coates and William Morrison's Land of the Midnight Sun illustrates the history of Canada's Yukon Territory clearly and in detail. Before reading this book, I hadn't considered the extent to which the modern Yukon--and, for that matter, the whole of the Canadian North--has been overdetermined by the policies and priorities of the Canadian state, nearly always without reference to the people who lived there. The First Nations were, as usual, transformed from autonomous peoples who engaged with the fur trade on their own terms into paternalized dependents forced to rely on the guidance of the Canadian state; the gold rush lasted only so long and then the territory was left to languish by its colonial overlord in Ottawa, deprived of the investment that it needed to cop the territory was cut off from its connections to its natural metropole of Alaska via the Yukon River and associated with British Columbia; the Alaska Highway did revive the territory's economy, but it did so at the expense of the older and more established centres in the centre and north of the territory like Dawson City and Mayo, encouraging the concentration of the territory's population in the capital of Whitehorse. Coates and Morrison conclude their revised edition of their history of Yukon by hoping that after a century of tumultuous change and increasing marginalization in a Canada that no longer cares about its frontiers, Yukoners will be able to come to terms with themselves and their northern heritage, but even this hopeful conclusion is undermined by the evidence that they themselves have cited about the transitory nature of much of the territory's population and the patterning of Whitehorse on the model of the average (southern) Canadian city. Land of the Midnight Sun might perhaps best be thought of as at once a touching elegy to the Yukon of old and a meticulous reconstruction of how that Yukon evaporated.