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Canadian state trials. Volume III, Political trials and security measures, 1840-1914 / edited by Barry Wright and Susan Binnie.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History series.
- The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political crimes and offenses.
- Trials (Political crimes and offenses)--Canada.
- Trials (Political crimes and offenses).
- Political crimes and offenses--Canada--History.
- Canada.
- Genre:
- History.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (671 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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 Lepine, 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 23, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 1-4426-8392-9
- OCLC:
- 1013939020
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