Essays in the history of Canadian law In honour of R.C.B. Risk
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0802047297
ISBN 13
9781442620797
DDC
349.71
Category
Osgoode Society
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Publication Year
1999
Publisher
Volume
8
Pages
xvii, 585 pages
Subject
Canada
Series Name
Abstract
"The collected essays in this volume represent the highlights of legal historical scholarship in Canada today. All of the essays refer back in some form to Risk's own work in the field." - Voila
Description
Content:
Richard C.B. Risk: a tribute / Robert W. Gordon and David Sugarman. -- R.C.B. Risk's Canadian legal history / G. Blaine Baker. -- "Your conscience will be your own punishment": the racially motivated murder of Gus Ninham, Ontario, 1902 / Constance Backhouse. -- Ontario water quality, public health, and the law, 1880-1930 / Jamie Benidickson. -- "The modern spirit of the law": Blake, Mowat, and the Breaches of Contract Act, 1877 / Paul Craven. -- A romance of the lost: the role of Tom MacInnes in the history of the British Columbia Indian land question / Hamar Foster. -- Taking litigation seriously: the market wharf controversy at Halifax, 1785-1820 / Philip Girard. -- "Our arctic brethren": Canadian law and lawyers as protrayed in American legal periodicals, 1829-1911 / Bernard J. Hibbitts. -- Conservative insurrection: great strikes and deep law in Cleveland, Ohio and London, Ontario, 1898-1899 / R.W. Kostal. -- Gooderham & Worts: a case study in business organization in nineteenth-century Ontario / C. Ian Kyer. -- The sacred rights of property: title, entitlement, and the land question in nineteenth-century Prince Edward Island / Margaret E. McCallum. -- Race and the criminal justice system in British Columbia, 1892-1920: constructing Chinese crimes / John McLaren. -- Power, politics, and the law: the place of the judiciary in the historiography of upper Canada / Peter Oliver. -- The criminal trial in Nova Scotia, 1749-1815 / Jim Phillips. -- "The disquisitions of learned judges": making Manitoba lawyers, 1885-1931 / W. Wesley Pue. -- The law of evolution and the evolution of the law: Mills, Darwin, and late-nineteenth-century legal thought / Robert Vipond and Georgina Feldberg. -- R.C.B. Risk bibliography.
Richard C.B. Risk: a tribute / Robert W. Gordon and David Sugarman. -- R.C.B. Risk's Canadian legal history / G. Blaine Baker. -- "Your conscience will be your own punishment": the racially motivated murder of Gus Ninham, Ontario, 1902 / Constance Backhouse. -- Ontario water quality, public health, and the law, 1880-1930 / Jamie Benidickson. -- "The modern spirit of the law": Blake, Mowat, and the Breaches of Contract Act, 1877 / Paul Craven. -- A romance of the lost: the role of Tom MacInnes in the history of the British Columbia Indian land question / Hamar Foster. -- Taking litigation seriously: the market wharf controversy at Halifax, 1785-1820 / Philip Girard. -- "Our arctic brethren": Canadian law and lawyers as protrayed in American legal periodicals, 1829-1911 / Bernard J. Hibbitts. -- Conservative insurrection: great strikes and deep law in Cleveland, Ohio and London, Ontario, 1898-1899 / R.W. Kostal. -- Gooderham & Worts: a case study in business organization in nineteenth-century Ontario / C. Ian Kyer. -- The sacred rights of property: title, entitlement, and the land question in nineteenth-century Prince Edward Island / Margaret E. McCallum. -- Race and the criminal justice system in British Columbia, 1892-1920: constructing Chinese crimes / John McLaren. -- Power, politics, and the law: the place of the judiciary in the historiography of upper Canada / Peter Oliver. -- The criminal trial in Nova Scotia, 1749-1815 / Jim Phillips. -- "The disquisitions of learned judges": making Manitoba lawyers, 1885-1931 / W. Wesley Pue. -- The law of evolution and the evolution of the law: Mills, Darwin, and late-nineteenth-century legal thought / Robert Vipond and Georgina Feldberg. -- R.C.B. Risk bibliography.
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