| Description |
1 online resource (671 pages) |
| Series |
Canadian State Trials ; v. III |
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Canadian State Trials
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| Contents |
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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Political crimes and offenses.
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Trials (Political crimes and offenses) -- Canada
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Political crimes and offenses -- Canada -- History
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Political crimes and offenses
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Trials (Political crimes and offenses)
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Canada
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Binnie, Susan
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| ISBN |
9781442683921 |
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1442683929 |
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