Canadian State Trials, Volume III

Political Trials and Security Measures, 1840-1914

Barry Wright, Susan Binnie (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

656 Seiten

2009
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4426-4015-3 (ISBN)

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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. Trials for treason and related political offences, suspensions of habeas corpus, and other public order and security-related measures, supported by new institutions such as secret policing, are studied in essays by leading scholars in the field.

The book is divided into four parts: trials and related proceedings arising from the Fenian invasions; attempts to regulate large-scale manifestations of public disorder; trials following the North-West Rebellions of 1870 and 1885, including the Riel trial; and the modernization and enforcement of Canada's national security laws. Building upon the established scholarship of the series, the essays place these legal responses in context, shedding light on the complex and changing relationship between law and politics in Canadian history.

Barry Wright is a professor emeritus of law and history at Carleton University. Susan Binnie is an independent scholar living in Toronto.

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Abbreviations

Introduction: From State Trials to National Security Measures
Susan Binnie and Barry Wright

Part One: Fenians

1 ‘Stars and Shamrocks Will be Sown’: The Fenian State Trials, 1866–7
R. Blake Brown

2 The D’Arcy McGee Affair and the Suspension of Habeas Corpus
David A. Wilson

Part Two: Managing Collective Disorder

3 The Tenant League and the Law, 1864–7
Ian Ross Robertson

4 The Trials and Tribulations of Riot Prosecutions: Collective Violence, State Authority, and Criminal Justice in Quebec, 1841–92
Donald Fyson

5 Maintaining Order on the Pacifi c Railway: The Peace Preservation Act, 1869–85
Susan Binnie

6 Street Railway Strikes, Collective Violence, and the Canadian State, 1886–1914
Eric Tucker

Part Three: The North-West Rebellions

7 Treasonous Murder: The Trial of Ambroise Lépine, 1874
Louis A. Knafl A

8 Summary and Incompetent Justice: Legal Responses to the 1885 Crisis
Bob Beal And Barry Wright

9 Another Look at the Riel Trial for Treason
J.M. Bumsted

10 The White Man Governs: The 1885 Indian Trials
Bill Waiser

Part Four: Securing the Dominion

11 ‘High-handed, Impolite, and Empire-breaking Actions’: Radicalism, Anti-Imperialism, and Political Policing in Canada, 1860–1914
Andrew Parnaby and Gregory S. Kealey with Kirk Niergarth

12 Codification, Public Order, and the Security Provisions of the Canadian Criminal Code, 1892
Desmond 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 Research
Judi Cumming

B. Archival Sources in Canada for Riel’s Rebellion
Gilles Lesage

C. Supporting Documents

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	8.10.2009
Reihe/Serie	Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 236 mm
Gewicht	1140 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Besonderes Strafrecht
ISBN-10	1-4426-4015-4 / 1442640154
ISBN-13	978-1-4426-4015-3 / 9781442640153
Zustand	Neuware