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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 Illustrations Preface 1. Introduction: Laws and Societies in the Anglo-Canadian North-WestFrontiers and Prairie Provinces, 1670-1940 / Louis A.Knafla Part One: First Nations and First Peoples 2. Law and Necessity in Western Rupert's Land and Beyond,1670-1870 / Hamar Foster 3. "There Seemed to be No Recognized Law": Canadian Lawand the Prairie First Nations / Sidney L. Harring 4. The Exclusionary Effect of Colonial Law: Indigenous Peoples andEnglish Law in Western Canada, 1670-1870 / Russell C.Smandych 5. Discipline and Discretion in the Mid-Eighteenth-CenturyHudson's Bay Company Private Justice System / Paul C.Nigol Part Two: Adaptations to Modernity 6. Policing Two Imperial Frontiers: The Royal Irish Constabulary andthe North-West Mounted Police / Greg Marquis 7. The Common Law and Justices of the Supreme Court of theNorth-West Territories: The First Generation, 1887-1907 / RoderickG. Martin 8. The Implications of a Provincial Police Force in Alberta andSaskatchewan / Zhiqiu Lin and Augustine Brannigan 9. The Development of Prairie Canada's Water Law, 1870-1940 /Tristan M. Goodman 10. Monopolies and State Regulation: The Calgary Power Company,Utilities, and the Alberta Public Utilities Board, 1910-30 / JaniceErion 11. The Law and Public Nudity: Prairie and West Coast Reactions tothe Sons of Freedom, 1929-1932 / John McLaren Acknowledgments Contributors General Index Index of Cases Index ofOrdinances, Proclamations, and Statutes ...
