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  • The Fiercest Debate

    Cecil A Wright, the Benchers, and Legal Education in Ontario 1923-1957

    de Jerome Bickenbach, C. Kyer ...
    Series series Heritage
    From its earliest days the Law Society of Upper Canada adhered to the traditions of English legal practice and education. In the 1930s and 1940s, however, some of the most cherished of those traditions were challenged in a bitter debate about the nature of legal education in Ontario. This book tells the story of that debate and one of its leading participants, Cecil Augustus Wright.'Caesar' Wright ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

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  • Blood and Daring

    How Canada Fought the American Civil War and Forged a Nation

    de John Boyko ...
    Blood and Daring will change our views not just of Canada's relationship with the United States, but of the Civil War, Confederation and Canada itself.In Blood and Daring, lauded historian John Boyko makes a compelling argument that Confederation occurred when and as it did largely because of the pressures of the Civil War. Many readers will be shocked by Canada's deep connection to the war- ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • The Case of Valentine Shortis

    A True Story of Crime and Politics in Canada

    de Martin Friedland ...
    Series series Heritage
    Two men were shot and killed in the office of the Montreal Cotton Company in Valleyfield, Quebec, on a night in 1895. A third victim, shot through the head, managed to survive. Charged with the murders was Valentine Shortis, a young Irish immigrant. His trial, the longest on record at the time in Canada, was played out against one of the most dramatic periods in Canadian political history. Before ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • The Voyage of the 'Fox' in the Arctic Seas

    de Sir Frances Leopold McClintock ...
    Series series Classics West Collection
    In 1845, Sir John Franklin set off from England to locate and chart the elusive Northwest Passage. He and his crew of 129 men never returned.Over the following decade, forty expeditions were launched in an effort to establish the fate of the missing men. But it wasn't until 1854 that traces of their demise were discovered along the western shore of King William Island.However, without proof, ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Memoirs and Reflections

    de Roy McMurtry ...
    From “the Kid” on the Varsity Blues football team to “the Chief” at Osgoode Hall, R. Roy McMurtry has had a remarkably varied and influential career. As reformist attorney general of Ontario, one of the architects of the agreement that brought about the patriation of the Canadian Constitution, high commissioner to the United Kingdom, and chief justice of Ontario, he made a large and enduring ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Payback

    The Case for Revenge

    de Thane Rosenbaum ...
    We call it justice—the assassination of Osama bin Laden, the incarceration of corrupt politicians or financiers like Rod Blagojevich and Bernard Madoff, and the climactic slaying of cinema-screen villains by superheroes. But could we not also call it revenge? We are told that revenge is uncivilized and immoral, an impulse that individuals and societies should actively repress and replace with the ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The Court of Appeal for Ontario

    Defining the Right of Appeal in Canada, 1792-2013

    de Christopher Moore ...
    In Christopher Moore’s lively and engaging history of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, he traces the evolution of one of Canada’s most influential courts from its origins as a branch of the lieutenant governor’s executive council to the post-Charter years of cutting-edge jurisprudence and national influence.Discussing the issues, personalities, and politics which have shaped Ontario’s highest ... Leer más

    $48.99 USD

  • Fragile Settlements

    Aboriginal Peoples, Law, and Resistance in South-West Australia and Prairie Canada

    de Amanda Nettelbeck, Russell Smandych, Louis A. Knafla, Robert Foster ...
    Series series Law and Society
    Fragile Settlements compares the processes by which colonial authority was asserted over Indigenous people in south-west Australia and prairie Canada from the 1830s to the early twentieth century. At the start of this period, there was an explosion of settler migration across the British Empire. In a humanitarian response to the unprecedented demand for land, Britain’s Colonial Office moved to ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Dewigged, Bothered, and Bewildered

    British Colonial Judges on Trial, 1800-1900

    de John McLaren ...
    Throughout the British colonies in the nineteenth century, judges were expected not only to administer law and justice, but also to play a significant role within the governance of their jurisdictions. British authorities were consequently concerned about judges' loyalty to the Crown, and on occasion removed or suspended those who were found politically subversive or personally difficult. Even ... Leer más

    $45.99 USD

  • Spying on Canadians

    The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Security Service and the Origins of the Long Cold War

    de Gregory S. Kealey ...
    Award winning author Gregory S. Kealey’s study of Canada’s security and intelligence community before the end of World War II depicts a nation caught up in the Red Scare in the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution and tangled up with the imperial interests of first the United Kingdom and then the United States.Spying on Canadians brings together over twenty five years of research and writing ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • Essays in the History of Canadian Law

    Volume II

    Edición de David Flaherty ...
    Series Libro 2 - Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
    This volume is the second in the Essays in the History of Canadian Law series, designed to illustrate the wide possibilities for research and writing in Canadian legal history. In combination, these volumes reflect the wide-ranging scope of legal history as an intellectual discipline andencourage others to pursue important avenues of inquiry on all aspects of our legal past.Topics include the role ... Leer más

    $61.99 USD

  • The Sleeping Sovereign

    The Invention of Modern Democracy

    de Richard Tuck ...
    Series series The Seeley Lectures
    Richard Tuck traces the history of the distinction between sovereignty and government and its relevance to the development of democratic thought. Tuck shows that this was a central issue in the political debates of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and provides a new interpretation of the political thought of Bodin, Hobbes and Rousseau. Integrating legal theory and the history of political ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD