Law, society, and the state : essays in modern legal history

Law, society, and the state : essays in modern legal history

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Edition Details

• Creators or Attribution (Responsibility): Susan W. S. Binnie, Louis A. Knafla
• Language: English
• Jurisdiction(s): Ontario
• Publication Information: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1995
• Publication Type (Medium): History
• Material: Conference publication
• Type: Book
• Permalink: https://books.lawi.ca/law-society-and-the-state-essays-in-modern-legal-history/ (Stable identifier)

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Online version: Law, society, and the state. Toronto ; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, ©1995 (OCoLC)603981194

Short Description

XII, 558 pages ; 24 cm

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Useful for students learning an area of law, Law, society, and the state : essays in modern legal history is also useful for lawyers seeking to apply the law to issues arising in practice.

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Bibliographic information

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Responsable Person: edited by Louis A. Knafla and Susan W.S. Binnie.
• Publication Date: 1995
• Copyright Date: 1995
• Location: Buffalo
• Country/State: Ontario
• Number of Editions: 9 editions
• First edition Date: 1994
• Last edition Date: 1995
• General Notes: “The distinguished contributions that fill this book had their origin in papers prepared for the 1992 conference sponsored by the Law Society of Upper Canada and held at Osgoode Hall, Toronto”–Page [ix].
• Languages: English
• Library of Congress Code: KE394
• Dewey Code: 340.1150971
• ISBN: 0802005357 9780802005359 0802069711 9780802069719
• OCLC: 33282630

Main Contents

Beyond the state : law and legal pluralism in the making of modern societies / Louis A. Knafla and Susan W.S. Binnie
The Anderson case and rights in Canada and England / Paul Finkelman
From fishing schooner to colony : the legal development of Newfoundland, 1791-1832 / Christopher English
William Osgoode, John Graves Simcoe, and the exclusion of the English poor law from upper Canada / Russell C. Smandych
Law-making and social change in colonial Trinidad, 1900-1950 / Kusha Haraksingh
Asian customary laws through western eyes : a comparison of Sri Lankan and Hong Kong colonial experiences / Anton Cooray
Imperial authority and colonial officialdom of upper Canada in the 1830s : the state, crime, lunacy, and everyday social order / Rainer Baehre
The Blake Act of 1878 : a legislative solution to urban VIolence in post-confederation Canada / Susan W.S. Binnie
Civil liberties and the law : California during the first World War / Diane M.T. North
Wagging tongues and empty heads : seditious utterances and the patriotism of wartime in central Alberta, 1914-1918 / Jonathan Swainger
Treaties, trains, and troubled national dreams : reflections on the Indian summer in northern Ontario, 1990 / Anthony Hall
'If a man's wife does not obey him, what can he do?' : marital breakdown and wife abuse in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Ontario / Annalee E. Go?lz
Locking them up : incarcerating women in Ontario, 1857-1931 / Wendy Ruemper
'Just plain everyday housekeeping on a grand scale' : feminists, family courts, and the welfare state in British Columbia, 1928-1945 / Dorothy E. Chunn
The 'incorrigible, ' the 'bad, ' and the 'immoral' : Toronto's 'factory girls' and the work of the Toronto Psychiatric Clinic / Jennifer Stephen
'Law-ways, ' 'law-jobs, ' and the documentary heritage of the state / Louis A. Knafla
The archives of the English and Welsh police forces : a survey / Clive Emsley
Towards a Canadian police historiography / Greg Marquis
Private sector legal archives in Canada : a source of concern / Richard Klumpenhouwer
Waiving history goodbye? Lawyers' records and the scholar / Peter Moore.

Structured Subjects (Headings):

• Canada
• Sociological jurisprudence

Unstructured Subjects (Headings):

• Canada
• Sociological jurisprudence

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