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Canadian State Trials : Political Trials and Security Measures, 1840-1914.

The third volume in the Canadian State Trials series examines Canadian legal responses to real or perceived threats to the safety and security of the state from 1840 to 1914, a period of extensive challenges associated with fundamental political and socio-economic change.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wright, Barry
Otros Autores: Binnie, Susan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2009.
Edición:2nd ed.
Colección:Canadian State Trials.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: From State Trials to National Security Measures
  • Part One: Fenians
  • 1 'Stars and Shamrocks Will be Sown': The Fenian State Trials, 1866-7
  • 2 The D'Arcy McGee Affair and the Suspension of Habeas Corpus
  • Part Two: Managing Collective Disorder
  • 3 The Tenant League and the Law, 1864-7
  • 4 The Trials and Tribulations of Riot Prosecutions: Collective Violence, State Authority, and Criminal Justice in Quebec, 1841-92
  • 5 Maintaining Order on the Pacific Railway: The Peace Preservation Act, 1869-85
  • 6 Street Railway Strikes, Collective Violence, and the Canadian State, 1886-1914
  • Part Three: The North-West Rebellions
  • 7 Treasonous Murder: The Trial of Ambroise Lépine, 1874
  • 8 Summary and Incompetent Justice: Legal Responses to the 1885 Crisis
  • 9 Another Look at the Riel Trial for Treason
  • 10 The White Man Governs: The 1885 Indian Trials
  • Part Four: Securing the Dominion
  • 11 'High-handed, Impolite, and Empire-breaking Actions': Radicalism, Anti-Imperialism, and Political Policing in Canada, 1860-1914
  • 12 Codification, Public Order, and the Security Provisions of the Canadian Criminal Code, 1892
  • Appendices: Archival Research and Supporting Documents
  • A. The Sir John A. Macdonald Fonds: Research Strategies and Methodological Issues for Archival Research
  • B. Archival Sources in Canada for Riel's Rebellion
  • C. Supporting Documents
  • Index
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