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The grand experiment [[electronic resource] ] : law and legal culture in British settler societies / / edited by Hamar Foster, Benjamin L. Berger, and A.R. Buck
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Pubblicazione: | Vancouver, : Published by the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by UBC Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (415 p.) |
Disciplina: | 349.41 |
Soggetto topico: | Law - Great Britain - Colonies - History |
Law - Great Britain - History | |
Indians of North America - Legal status, laws, etc - Canada - History | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: |
FosterHamar <1948->
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Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [352]-376) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Does Law Matter? The New Colonial Legal History; PART 1: AUTHORITY AT THE BOUNDARIES OF EMPIRE; 1 Libel and the Colonial Administration of Justice in Upper Canada and New South Wales, c. 1825-30; 2 The Limits of Despotic Government at Sea; 3 One Chief, Two Chiefs, Red Chiefs, Blue Chiefs: Newcomer Perspectives on Indigenous Leadership in Rupert's Land and the North-West Territories; 4 Rhetoric, Reason, and the Rule of Law in Early Colonial New South Wales |
5 Sometimes Persuasive Authority: Dominion Case Law and English Judges, 1895-1970 PART 2: COURTS AND JUDGES IN THE COLONIES; 6 Courts, Communities, and Communication: The Nova Scotia Supreme Court on Circuit, 1816-50; 7 Fame and Infamy: Two Men of the Law in Colonial New Zealand; 8 Moving in an "Eccentric Orbit": The Independence of Judge Algernon Sidney Montagu in Van Diemen's Land, 1833-47; 9 "Not in Keeping with the Traditions of the Cariboo Courts": Courts and Community Identity in Northeastern British Columbia, 1920-50; PART 3: PROPERTY, POLITICS, AND PETITIONS IN COLONIAL LAW | |
10 Starkie's Adventures in North America: The Emergence of Libel Law 11 The Law of Dower in New South Wales and the United States: A Study in Comparative Legal History; 12 Contesting Prohibition and the Constitution in 1850's New Brunswick; 13 From Humble Prayers to Legal Demands: The Cowichan Petition of 1909 and the British Columbia Indian Land Question; Afterword: Looking from the Past into the Future; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index; | |
Titolo autorizzato: | The grand experiment ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-282-45701-2 |
9786612457012 | |
0-7748-1493-4 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910456316303321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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