Canada's Legal Pasts - Looking Foreward, Looking Back (Paperback)

Canada's Legal Pasts presents new essays on a range of topics and episodes in Canadian legal history, provides an introduction to legal methodologies, shows researchers new to the field how to locate and use a variety of sources, and includes a combined bibliography arranged to demonstrate best practices in gathering and listing primary sources. It is an essential welcome for scholars who wish to learn about Canada's legal pasts-and why we study them. Telling new stories-about a fishing vessel that became the subject of an extraordinarily long diplomatic dispute, young Northwest Mounted Police constables subject to an odd mixture of police discipline and criminal procedure, and more-this book presents the vibrant evolution of Canada's legal tradition. Explorations of primary sources, including provincial archive records that suggest how Quebec courts have been used in interfamilial conflict, newspaper records that disclose the details of bigamy cases, and penitentiary records that reveal the details of the lives and legal entanglements of Canada's most marginalized people, show the many different ways of researching and understanding legal history. This is Canadian legal history as you've never seen it before. Canada's Legal Pasts dives into new topics in Canada's fascinating history and presents practical approaches to legal scholarship, bringing together established and emerging scholars in collection essential for researchers at all levels.

General

Imprint:	University of Calgary Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	May 2020
Editors:	Lyndsay Campbell • Ted McCoy • Melanie Methot
Contributors:	Nick Austin • Erich Reiter • Christopher Shorey • Angela Fernandez • Catharine MacMillan • Alexandra Havrylyshyn • Jean-Phillipe Garneau
Dimensions:	228 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	400
ISBN-13:	978-1-77385-116-7
Categories:	Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Legal history Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > History > American history > General
LSN:	1-77385-116-0
Barcode:	9781773851167

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