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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450193703321

Titolo

People and place [[electronic resource] ] : historical influences on legal culture / / edited by Jonathan Swainger and Constance Backhouse

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Vancouver, : UBC Press, c2003

ISBN

1-283-13123-4

9786613131232

0-7748-5193-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Collana

Law and society series

Altri autori (Persone)

BackhouseConstance <1952->

SwaingerJonathan Scott <1962->

Disciplina

340/.115

Soggetti

Culture and law

Law and geography

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Prologue: Louis Knafla and Canadian Legal History; 1 Introduction; 2 The King, the People, the Law ... and the Constitution: Justice Robert Thorpe and the Roots of Irish Whig Ideology in Early Upper Canada; 3 William Augustus Miles (1796-1851): Crime, Policing, and Moral Entrepreneurship in England and Australia; 4 Macleod at Law: A Judicial Biography of James Farquharson Macleod, 1874-94; 5 ""Don't You Bully Me ... Justice I Want If There Is Justice to Be Had"": The Rape of Mary Ann Burton, London, Ontario, 1907

6 Murdered Women and Mythic Villains: The Criminal Case and the Imaginary Criminal in the Canadian West, 1886-19307 Boomtown Brothels in the Kootenays, 1895-1905; 8 ""Imagine That! A Lady Going to an Office!"": Janet Kathleen Gilley; 9 Incarcerating Holiness: Religious Enthusiasm and the Law in Oregon, 1904; 10 Police Culture in British Columbia and "Ordinary Duty"" in the Peace River Country, 1910-39; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; W; Y