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Autore: | Dorland Michael |
Titolo: | Law, rhetoric and irony in the formation of Canadian civil culture / / Michael Dorland, Maurice Charland |
Pubblicazione: | Toronto ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2002 |
©2002 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (374 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina: | 971 |
Soggetto topico: | Civil society - Canada |
Law - Canada - History | |
Soggetto geografico: | Canada Politics and government |
Soggetto genere / forma: | History |
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Persona (resp. second.): | CharlandMaurice René |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Envoi -- Situating Canada's Civil Culture -- 'Who Killed Canadian History?' The Uses and Abuses of Canadian Historiography -- The Legitimacy of Conquest: Issues in the Transition of Legal Regimes, 1760s-1840s -- Constituting Constitutions under the British Regime, 1763-1867 -- The Limits of Law: The North-West, Riel, and the Expansion of Anglo-Canadian Institutions, 1869-1885 -- 'Impious Civility': Woman's Suffrage and the Refiguration of Civil Culture, 1885-1929 -- The Dialectic of Language, Law, and Translation: Manitoba and Quebec Revisited, 1969-1999 -- Civility, Its Discontents, and the Performance of Social Appearance -- The Figures of Authority in Canadian Civil Culture. |
Sommario/riassunto: | A challenging examination of the history of Canadian governance and the central role played by legal and other discourses in the formation of civil culture. |
Altri titoli varianti: | Law, rhetoric & irony in the formation of Canadian civil culture |
Titolo autorizzato: | Law, rhetoric and irony in the formation of Canadian civil culture |
ISBN: | 9786612028328 |
1-282-02832-4 | |
1-4426-7660-4 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910818841503321 |
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