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The Vancouver Island Treaties and the Evolving Principles of Indigenous Title
Price:
$44.95
ISBN: 9781487554095
Pub Date: December 2024
Drawing on archival documents and multidisciplinary research in linguistics, archaeology, and the environmental sciences, this book presents new interpretations of the Vancouver Island treaties.
Deadly Swindle
An 1890 Murder in Backwoods Ontario that Gripped the World
Price:
$80.00
ISBN: 9781487560232
Pub Date: October 2024
A fascinating journey into life and law in late nineteenth-century Canada, Deadly Swindle tells the story of one the country’s most sensational murder cases.
St Antoninus of Florence on Trade, Merchants, and Workers
Price:
$125.00
ISBN: 9781487545949
Pub Date: August 2024
This book interprets the life and teachings of Saint Antoninus, an important Catholic saint and fifteenth-century writer, and offers a critical edition of his major work on moral theology.
Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume XII
New Essays in Women's History
Price:
$95.00
ISBN: 9781487553906
Pub Date: October 2023
This collection investigates historical cases involving women and gender relations in order to uncover the power dynamics at the heart of the legal system.
For the Encouragement of Learning
The Origins of Canadian Copyright Law
Price:
$90.00
ISBN: 9781487545246
Pub Date: April 2023
For the Encouragement of Learning examines the historical origins of copyright law in Canada.
Law of the Land
The Advent of the Torrens System in Canada
Price:
$34.95
ISBN: 9781487552138
Pub Date: November 2022
Greg Taylor traces the spread of the Torrens system, from its arrival in the far-flung outpost of 1860s Victoria, British Columbia, right up to twenty-first century Ontario.
Canadian State Trials, Volume V
World War, Cold War, and Challenges to Sovereignty, 1939–1990
Price:
$90.00
ISBN: 9781487546038
Pub Date: November 2022
The final volume of the Osgoode Society’s Canadian State Trials series sheds light on the legal issues surrounding perceived security threats in Canada in the twentieth century.
Constructing the Family
Marriage and Work in Nineteenth-Century English Law
Price:
$90.00
ISBN: 9781487546526
Pub Date: November 2022
This book traces the dissolution of the household and the construction of the family in English law and legal thought in the long nineteenth century.
Justice in Lyon
Klaus Barbie and France’s First Trial for Crimes against Humanity
Price:
$39.95
ISBN: 9781487545598
Pub Date: July 2022
Justice in Lyon is a comprehensive history of the trial for crimes against humanity of the Nazi Klaus Barbie.
Dewigged, Bothered, and Bewildered
British Colonial Judges on Trial, 1800-1900
Price:
$59.95
ISBN: 9781487548889
Pub Date: June 2022
Using the career histories of judges who challenged the system, Dewigged, Bothered, and Bewildered illuminates issues of judicial tenure, accountability, and independence throughout the British Empire.
Faith, Force, and Reason
An Armchair History of the Rule of Law
Price:
$39.95
ISBN: 9781487540821
Pub Date: March 2022
Faith, Force, and Reason follows the way legal thinking has evolved over time and explains how the rule of law has come to replace faith and force as the accepted method of conflict resolution.
The Death Penalty and Sex Murder in Canadian History
Price:
$88.00
ISBN: 9781487508371
Pub Date: October 2020
This is the first historical study to examine changing perceptions of sexual murder and the treatment of "sex killers" while the death penalty was in effect in Canada.
Jurists and Jurisprudence in Medieval Italy
Texts and Contexts
Price:
$138.00
ISBN: 9781487507480
Pub Date: October 2020
This unique collection makes available, for the first time, translations of medieval Italian jurisprudence, including commentaries, tracts, and legal opinions by leading jurists.
Corporate Cataclysm
Abitibi Power & Paper and the Collapse of the Newsprint Industry, 1912–1946
Price:
$105.00
ISBN: 9781487505561
Pub Date: September 2020
Corporate Cataclysm examines the most controversial and complicated bankruptcy in Canadian history: Abitibi Power and Paper Ltd.
Wounded Feelings
Litigating Emotions in Quebec, 1870–1950
Price:
$50.00
ISBN: 9781487526986
Pub Date: September 2020
Wounded Feelings explores how people brought stories of emotional injury like betrayal, grief, humiliation, and anger before the Quebec courts from 1870 to 1950, and how lawyers and judges translated those feelings into the rational language of law.
Taking the Bite Out of Rabies
The Evolution of Rabies Management in Canada
Price:
$221.00
ISBN: 9781487504281
Pub Date: July 2020
Taking the Bite out of Rabies records the evolution of rabies management and control in Canada.
The Vancouver Island Treaties and the Evolving Principles of Indigenous Title
$44.95
ISBN: 9781487554095
Pub Date: December 2024
Deadly Swindle
An 1890 Murder in Backwoods Ontario that Gripped the World
$80.00
ISBN: 9781487560232
Pub Date: October 2024
St Antoninus of Florence on Trade, Merchants, and Workers
$125.00
ISBN: 9781487545949
Pub Date: August 2024
This book interprets the life and teachings of Saint Antoninus, an important Catholic saint and fifteenth-century writer, and offers a critical edition of his major work on moral theology.
Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume XII
New Essays in Women's History
$95.00
ISBN: 9781487553906
Pub Date: October 2023
This collection investigates historical cases involving women and gender relations in order to uncover the power dynamics at the heart of the legal system.
For the Encouragement of Learning
The Origins of Canadian Copyright Law
$90.00
ISBN: 9781487545246
Pub Date: April 2023
For the Encouragement of Learning examines the historical origins of copyright law in Canada.
Law of the Land
The Advent of the Torrens System in Canada
$34.95
ISBN: 9781487552138
Pub Date: November 2022
Greg Taylor traces the spread of the Torrens system, from its arrival in the far-flung outpost of 1860s Victoria, British Columbia, right up to twenty-first century Ontario.
Canadian State Trials, Volume V
World War, Cold War, and Challenges to Sovereignty, 1939–1990
$90.00
ISBN: 9781487546038
Pub Date: November 2022
The final volume of the Osgoode Society’s Canadian State Trials series sheds light on the legal issues surrounding perceived security threats in Canada in the twentieth century.
Constructing the Family
Marriage and Work in Nineteenth-Century English Law
$90.00
ISBN: 9781487546526
Pub Date: November 2022
This book traces the dissolution of the household and the construction of the family in English law and legal thought in the long nineteenth century.
Justice in Lyon
Klaus Barbie and France’s First Trial for Crimes against Humanity
$39.95
ISBN: 9781487545598
Pub Date: July 2022
Justice in Lyon is a comprehensive history of the trial for crimes against humanity of the Nazi Klaus Barbie.
Dewigged, Bothered, and Bewildered
British Colonial Judges on Trial, 1800-1900
$59.95
ISBN: 9781487548889
Pub Date: June 2022
Using the career histories of judges who challenged the system, Dewigged, Bothered, and Bewildered illuminates issues of judicial tenure, accountability, and independence throughout the British Empire.
Faith, Force, and Reason
An Armchair History of the Rule of Law
$39.95
ISBN: 9781487540821
Pub Date: March 2022
Faith, Force, and Reason follows the way legal thinking has evolved over time and explains how the rule of law has come to replace faith and force as the accepted method of conflict resolution.
The Death Penalty and Sex Murder in Canadian History
$88.00
ISBN: 9781487508371
Pub Date: October 2020
This is the first historical study to examine changing perceptions of sexual murder and the treatment of "sex killers" while the death penalty was in effect in Canada.
Jurists and Jurisprudence in Medieval Italy
Texts and Contexts
$138.00
ISBN: 9781487507480
Pub Date: October 2020
This unique collection makes available, for the first time, translations of medieval Italian jurisprudence, including commentaries, tracts, and legal opinions by leading jurists.
Corporate Cataclysm
Abitibi Power & Paper and the Collapse of the Newsprint Industry, 1912–1946
$105.00
ISBN: 9781487505561
Pub Date: September 2020
Corporate Cataclysm examines the most controversial and complicated bankruptcy in Canadian history: Abitibi Power and Paper Ltd.
Wounded Feelings
Litigating Emotions in Quebec, 1870–1950
$50.00
ISBN: 9781487526986
Pub Date: September 2020
Wounded Feelings explores how people brought stories of emotional injury like betrayal, grief, humiliation, and anger before the Quebec courts from 1870 to 1950, and how lawyers and judges translated those feelings into the rational language of law.
Taking the Bite Out of Rabies
The Evolution of Rabies Management in Canada
$221.00
ISBN: 9781487504281
Pub Date: July 2020
Taking the Bite out of Rabies records the evolution of rabies management and control in Canada.