Description
Book SynopsisPeople and Place presents a path-breaking collection ofessays demonstrating the fascinating ways in which personalitiesinteract with physical locale in shaping the law. Examining law throughthe framework of history, this anthology presents a mixture ofinnovative articles produced by established scholars as well asrepresentatives of the next generation.
The collection represents a rich array of interdisciplinaryexpertise, with authors who are law professors, historians,sociologists and criminologists. Their essays include studies into thelives of judges and lawyers, rape victims, prostitutes, religious sectleaders, and common criminals. The geographic scope touches Canada, theUnited States and Australia. The essays explore how one individual, orsmall self-identified groups, were able to make a difference in how lawwas understood
Table of Contents
Prologue: Louis Knafla and Canadian Legal History / JonathanSwainger
1) Introduction / Jonathan Swainger and ConstanceBackhouse
2) The King, the People, the Law ... and the Constitution: JusticeRobert Thorpe and the Roots of Irish Whig Ideology in Early UpperCanada / John McLaren
3) William Augustus Miles (1796-1851): Crime, Policing, and MoralEntrepreneurship in England and Australia / David Philips
4) Macleod at Law: A Judicial Biography of James FarquharsonMacleod, 1874-94 / Roderick G. Martin
5) "Don’t You Bully Me ... Justice I Want If There IsJustice To Be Had": The Rape of Mary Ann Burton, London, Ontario1907 / Constance Backhouse
6) Murdered Women and Mythic Villains: The Criminal Case and theImaginary Criminal in the Canadian West, 1886-1930 / LesleyErickson
7) Boomtown Brothels in the Kootenays, 1895-1905 / Charleen P.Smith
8) "Imagine That! A Lady Going to an Office!": JanetKathleen Gilley / Joan Brockman and Dorothy E. Chunn
9) Incarcerating Holiness: Religious Enthusiasm and the Law inOregon, 1904 / Jim Phillips, Kelly Deluca, and RosemaryGartner
10) Police Culture in British Columbia and "Ordinary Duty"in the Peace River Country, 1910-39 / Jonathan Swainger
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