The grand experiment [[electronic resource] ] : law and legal culture in British settler societies / / edited by Hamar Foster, Benjamin L. Berger, and A.R. Buck

• 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-> BuckA. R BergerBenjamin L. <1977->
• 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
• Serie: Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.)