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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Barry Wright and Susan Binnie Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis ForewordAcknowledgmentsContributorsAbbreviations Introduction: From State Trials to National Security MeasuresSusan Binnie and Barry Wright Part One: Fenians 1 ‘Stars and Shamrocks Will be Sown’: The Fenian State Trials, 1866-7R. Blake Brown 2 The D’Arcy McGee Affair and the Suspension of Habeas CorpusDavid A. Wilson Part Two: Managing Collective Disorder 3 The Tenant League and the Law, 1864-7Ian Ross Robertson 4 The Trials and Tribulations of Riot Prosecutions: Collective Violence, State Authority, and Criminal Justice in Quebec, 1841-92Donald Fyson 5 Maintaining Order on the Pacifi c Railway: The Peace Preservation Act, 1869-85Susan Binnie 6 Street Railway Strikes, Collective Violence, and the Canadian State, 1886-1914Eric Tucker Part Three: The North-West Rebellions 7 Treasonous Murder: The Trial of Ambroise Lépine, 1874Louis A. Knafl A 8 Summary and Incompetent Justice: Legal Responses to the 1885 CrisisBob Beal And Barry Wright 9 Another Look at the Riel Trial for TreasonJ.M. Bumsted 10 The White Man Governs: The 1885 Indian TrialsBill Waiser Part Four: Securing the Dominion 11 ‘High-handed, Impolite, and Empire-breaking Actions’: Radicalism, Anti-Imperialism, and Political Policing in Canada, 1860-1914Andrew Parnaby and Gregory S. Kealey with Kirk Niergarth 12 Codification, Public Order, and the Security Provisions of the Canadian Criminal Code, 1892Desmond H. Brown and Barry Wright Appendices: Archival Research and Supporting Documents A. The Sir John A. Macdonald Fonds: Research Strategies and Methodological Issues for Archival ResearchJudi Cumming B. Archival Sources in Canada for Riel’s RebellionGilles Lesage C. Supporting Documents Index...
