Arctic Crime and Punishment

Informationen zum Autor Kenn Harper is a historian, writer, and linguist, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, and a former member of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. He is the author of the In Those Days series, Minik: The New York Eskimo, and Thou Shalt Do No Murder: Inuit, Injustice, and the Canadian Arctic. "Taissumani," his column on Arctic history, appears in Nunatsiaq News. Klappentext Volume two of this series shares tales of murderers, thieves, and fraudsters-as well as the wrongfully accused-in the early days of Northern colonization. Zusammenfassung Kenn Harper shares the tales of murderers, thieves, and fraudsters--as well as the wrongfully accused--in the early days of Northern colonization. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, settler and Inuit ideas of justice clashed, leading to some of the most unusual trials and punishments in history.

Product details

• Authors: Kenn Harper
• Publisher: External catalogues_US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2015
• EAN: 9781772270068
• ISBN: 978-1-77227-006-8
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: In Those Days: Collected Writi; In Those Days: Collected Writi; In Those Days: Collected Writings on Arctic History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; True Crime, Nunavut, TRUE CRIME / General, HISTORY / Native American, HISTORY / Canada / General, History of specific lands, Arctic regions