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The Rule of the Admirals : Law, Custom, and Naval Government in Newfoundland, 1699-1832 /
Jerry Bannister's The Rule of the Admirals examines governance in Newfoundland from the rule of the fishing admirals in 1699 to the establishment of representative government in 1832. It offers the first in-depth account of the rise and fall of the system of naval government that dominated the...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables, Illustrations, and Appendices
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Fishing Admirals System
- 3 An Unruly Set of People: The Struggle for Judicial Authority
- 4 The Establishment of Naval Government
- 5 A Fief of the Admiralty: Newfoundland under Naval Rule
- 6 Using Mercy and Terror: The Patterns of Criminal Justice
- 7 Enforcing the Social Order: Punishment in a Fishing Society
- 8 The Fall of Naval Government
- 9 Conclusion
- Notes on Primary Sources
- Notes
- Bibliography of Primary Sources
- Index