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Informationen zum Autor Louis A. Knafla is professor emeritus of history at the University of Calgary. Jonathan Swainger is associate professor of history at the University of Northern British Columbia and co-editor, with Constance Backhouse, of People and Place: Historical Influences on Legal Culture, also published by UBC Press. Klappentext Challenging myths about a peaceful west and prairie exceptionalism, the book explores the substance of prairie legal history and the degree to which the region's mentality is rooted in the historical experience of distinctive prairie peoples. Zusammenfassung Challenging myths about a peaceful west and prairie exceptionalism! the book explores the substance of prairie legal history and the degree to which the region's mentality is rooted in the historical experience of distinctive prairie peoples. Inhaltsverzeichnis IllustrationsPreface1. Introduction: Laws and Societies in the Anglo-Canadian North-West Frontiers and Prairie Provinces, 1670-1940 / Louis A. KnaflaPart One: First Nations and First Peoples2. Law and Necessity in Western Rupert's Land and Beyond, 1670-1870 / Hamar Foster3. "There Seemed to be No Recognized Law": Canadian Law and the Prairie First Nations / Sidney L. Harring4. The Exclusionary Effect of Colonial Law: Indigenous Peoples and English Law in Western Canada, 1670-1870 / Russell C. Smandych5. Discipline and Discretion in the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Hudson's Bay Company Private Justice System / Paul C. NigolPart Two: Adaptations to Modernity6. Policing Two Imperial Frontiers: The Royal Irish Constabulary and the North-West Mounted Police / Greg Marquis7. The Common Law and Justices of the Supreme Court of the North-West Territories: The First Generation, 1887-1907 / Roderick G. Martin8. The Implications of a Provincial Police Force in Alberta and Saskatchewan / Zhiqiu Lin and Augustine Brannigan9. The Development of Prairie Canada's Water Law, 1870-1940 / Tristan M. Goodman10. Monopolies and State Regulation: The Calgary Power Company, Utilities, and the Alberta Public Utilities Board, 1910-30 / Janice Erion11. The Law and Public Nudity: Prairie and West Coast Reactions to the Sons of Freedom, 1929-1932 / John McLarenAcknowledgments Contributors General Index Index of Cases Index of Ordinances, Proclamations, and Statutes...
