Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History Canadian state trials : political trials and security measures, 1840-1914
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Book
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ISBN 10
1442640154
ISBN 13
9781442640153
DDC
345.71
Category
Osgoode Society
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Publication Year
2009
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Volume
3
Pages
Volumes
Subject
Canadian state law
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Abstract
"The third volume in the Canadian State Trials series examines Canadian legal responses to real or perceived threats to the safety and security of the state from 1840 to 1914, a period of extensive challenges associated with fundamental political and socio-economic change." - Voila
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Content:
Introduction: From State Trials to National Security Measures / Susan Binnie and Barry Wright -- Part One: Fenians -- 1 'Stars and Shamrocks Will be Sown': The Fenian State Trials, 1866-7 / R. Blake Brown -- 2 The D'Arcy McGee Affair and the Suspension of Habeas Corpus / David A. Wilson -- Part Two: Managing Collective Disorder -- 3 The Tenant League and the Law, 1864-7 / Ian Ross Robertson -- 4 The Trials and Tribulations of Riot Prosecutions: Collective Violence, State Authority, and Criminal Justice in Quebec, 1841-92 / Donald Fyson -- 5 Maintaining Order on the Pacific Railway: The Peace Preservation Act, 1869-85 / Susan Binnie -- 6 Street Railway Strikes, Collective Violence, and the Canadian State, 1886-1914 / Eric Tucker -- Part Three: The North-West Rebellions -- 7 Treasonous Murder: The Trial of Ambroise Lépine, 1874 / Louis A. Knafla -- 8 Summary and Incompetent Justice: Legal Responses to the 1885 Crisis / Bob Beal and Barry Wright -- 9 Another Look at the Riel Trial for Treason / J.M. Bumsted -- 10 The White Man Governs: The 1885 Indian Trials / Bill Waiser -- Part Four: Securing the Dominion -- 11 'High-handed, Impolite, and Empire-breaking Actions': Radicalism, Anti-Imperialism, and Political Policing in Canada, 1860-1914 / Andrew Parnaby and Gregory S. Kealey with Kirk Niergarth -- 12 Codification, Public Order, and the Security Provisions of the Canadian Criminal Code, 1892 / Desmond H. Brown and Barry Wright -- Appendices: Archival Research and Supporting Documents -- A. The Sir John A. Macdonald Fonds: Research Strategies and Methodological Issues for Archival Research / Judi Cumming -- B. Archival Sources in Canada for Riel's Rebellion / Gilles Lesage -- C. Supporting Documents.
Introduction: From State Trials to National Security Measures / Susan Binnie and Barry Wright -- Part One: Fenians -- 1 'Stars and Shamrocks Will be Sown': The Fenian State Trials, 1866-7 / R. Blake Brown -- 2 The D'Arcy McGee Affair and the Suspension of Habeas Corpus / David A. Wilson -- Part Two: Managing Collective Disorder -- 3 The Tenant League and the Law, 1864-7 / Ian Ross Robertson -- 4 The Trials and Tribulations of Riot Prosecutions: Collective Violence, State Authority, and Criminal Justice in Quebec, 1841-92 / Donald Fyson -- 5 Maintaining Order on the Pacific Railway: The Peace Preservation Act, 1869-85 / Susan Binnie -- 6 Street Railway Strikes, Collective Violence, and the Canadian State, 1886-1914 / Eric Tucker -- Part Three: The North-West Rebellions -- 7 Treasonous Murder: The Trial of Ambroise Lépine, 1874 / Louis A. Knafla -- 8 Summary and Incompetent Justice: Legal Responses to the 1885 Crisis / Bob Beal and Barry Wright -- 9 Another Look at the Riel Trial for Treason / J.M. Bumsted -- 10 The White Man Governs: The 1885 Indian Trials / Bill Waiser -- Part Four: Securing the Dominion -- 11 'High-handed, Impolite, and Empire-breaking Actions': Radicalism, Anti-Imperialism, and Political Policing in Canada, 1860-1914 / Andrew Parnaby and Gregory S. Kealey with Kirk Niergarth -- 12 Codification, Public Order, and the Security Provisions of the Canadian Criminal Code, 1892 / Desmond H. Brown and Barry Wright -- Appendices: Archival Research and Supporting Documents -- A. The Sir John A. Macdonald Fonds: Research Strategies and Methodological Issues for Archival Research / Judi Cumming -- B. Archival Sources in Canada for Riel's Rebellion / Gilles Lesage -- C. Supporting Documents.
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