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  • A History of Law in Canada, Volume One

    Beginnings to 1866

    Series Libro 1 - Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
    A History of Law in Canada is an important three-volume project. Volume One begins at a time just prior to European contact and continues to the 1860s, Volume Two covers the half century after Confederation, and Volume Three covers the period from the beginning of the First World War to 1982, with a postscript taking the account to approximately 2000.The history of law includes substantive law, ... Leer más

    $48.99 USD

  • A History of Law in Canada, Volume Two

    Law for a New Dominion, 1867–1914

    Series series Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
    This is the second of three volumes in an important collection that recounts the sweeping history of law in Canada. The period covered in this volume witnessed both continuity and change in the relationships among law, society, Indigenous peoples, and white settlers. The authors explore how law was as important to the building of a new urban industrial nation as it had been to the establishment of ... Leer más

    $85.99 USD

  • A History of Law in Canada, Volume Two

    Law for a New Dominion, 1867–1914

    Series series Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
    This is the second of three volumes in an important collection that recounts the sweeping history of law in Canada. The period covered in this volume witnessed both continuity and change in the relationships among law, society, Indigenous peoples, and white settlers. The authors explore how law was as important to the building of a new urban industrial nation as it had been to the establishment of ... Leer más

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    How the Fathers Made a Deal

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  • Canada's Odyssey

    A Country Based on Incomplete Conquests

    150 years after Confederation, Canada is known around the world for its social diversity and its commitment to principles of multiculturalism. But the road to contemporary Canada is a winding one, a story of division and conflict as well as union and accommodation.In Canada’s Odyssey, renowned scholar Peter H. Russell provides an expansive, accessible account of Canadian history from the pre ... Leer más

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  • Discovering Indigenous Lands

    The Doctrine of Discovery in the English Colonies

    This book presents new material and shines fresh light on the under-explored historical and legal evidence about the use of the doctrine of discovery in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. North America, New Zealand and Australia were colonised by England under an international legal principle that is known today as the doctrine of discovery. When Europeans set out to explore and ... Leer más

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  • Tax, Order, and Good Government

    A New Political History of Canada, 1867-1917

    Series Libro 240 - Carleton Library Series
    Was Canada’s Dominion experiment of 1867 an experiment in political domination? Looking to taxes provides the answer: they are a privileged measure of both political agency and political domination. To pay one’s taxes was the sine qua non of entry into political life, but taxes are also the point of politics, which is always about the control of wealth. Modern states have everywhere been born of ... Leer más

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  • Keeping Promises

    The Royal Proclamation of 1763, Aboriginal Rights, and Treaties in Canada

    Series Libro 78 - McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies
    In 1763 King George III of Great Britain, victorious in the Seven Years War with France, issued a proclamation to organize the governance of territory newly acquired by the Crown in North America and the Caribbean. The proclamation reserved land west of the Appalachian Mountains for Indians, and required the Crown to purchase Indian land through treaties, negotiated without coercion and in public, ... Leer más

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  • Canadian Founding

    John Locke and Parliament

    Series Libro 44 - McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas
    Convinced that rights are inalienable and that legitimate government requires the consent of the governed, the Fathers of Confederation - whether liberal or conservative - looked to the European enlightenment and John Locke. Janet Ajzenstat analyzes the legislative debates in the colonial parliaments and the Constitution Act (1867) in a provocative reinterpretation of Canadian political history ... Leer más

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  • The Invisible Crown

    The First Principle of Canadian Government

    The Crown is not only Canada’s oldest continuing political institution, but also its most pervasive, affecting the operation of Parliament and the legislatures, the executive, the bureaucracy, the courts, and federalism. However, many consider the Crown to be obscure and anachronistic. David E. Smith’s The Invisible Crown was one of the first books to study the role of the Crown in Canada, and ... Leer más

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  • A Short History of the State in Canada

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    Series series Themes in Canadian History
    A concise, elegant survey of a complex aspect of Canadian history, A Short History of the State in Canada examines the theory and reality of governance within Canada’s distinctive political heritage: a combination of Indigenous, French, and British traditions, American statism and anti-statism, and diverse, practical experiments and experiences.E.A. Heaman takes the reader through the development ... Leer más

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  • Essays in the History of Canadian Law

    A Tribute to Peter N. Oliver

    Series Libro 10 - Essays in the History of Canadian Law
    Written to honour the life and work of the late Peter N. Oliver, the distinguished historian and editor-in-chief of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History from 1979-2006, this collection assembles the finest legal scholars to reflect on the issues in and development of the field of legal history in Canada.Covering a broad range of topics, this volume examines developments over the last two ... Leer más

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