UID:
edocfu_9958353190202883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781442620797
Series Statement:
Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
Content:
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.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Foreword --
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Acknowledgments --
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Special Acknowledgment --
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Contributors --
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1. Richard C.B. Risk: A Tribute --
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2. R.C.B. Risk’s Canadian Legal History --
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3. ‘Your Conscience Will Be Your Own Punishment’: The Racially Motivated Murder of Gus Ninham, Ontario, 1902 --
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4. Ontario Water Quality, Public Health, and the Law, 1880–1930 --
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5. ‘The Modern Spirit of the Law’: Blake, Mowat, and the Breaches of Contract Act, 1877 --
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6. A Romance of the Lost: The Role of Tom MacInnes in the History of the British Columbia Indian Land Question --
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7. Taking Litigation Seriously: The Market Wharf Controversy at Halifax, 1785–1820 --
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8. ‘Our Arctic Brethren’: Canadian Law and Lawyers as Portrayed in American Legal Periodicals, 1829–1911 --
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9. Conservative Insurrection: Great Strikes and Deep Law in Cleveland, Ohio, and London, Ontario, 1898–1899 --
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10. Gooderham & Worts: A Case Study in Business Organization in Nineteenth-Century Ontario --
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11. The Sacred Rights of Property: Title, Entitlement, and the Land Question in Nineteenth-Century Prince Edward Island --
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12. Race and the Criminal Justice System in British Columbia, 1892–1920: Constructing Chinese Crimes --
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13. Power, Politics, and the Law: The Place of the Judiciary in the Historiography of Upper Canada --
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14. The Criminal Trial in Nova Scotia, 1749–1815 --
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15. ‘The Disquisitions of Learned Judges’: Making Manitoba Lawyers, 1885–1931 --
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16. The Law of Evolution and the Evolution of the Law: Mills, Darwin, and Late-Nineteenth-Century Legal Thought --
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R.C.B. Risk Bibliography --
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Publications of The Osgoode Society
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3138/9781442620797
URL:
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442620797
