Distributed for University of British Columbia Press
People and Place
Historical Influences on Legal Culture
Table of Contents
Prologue: Louis Knafla and Canadian Legal History / Jonathan Swainger
1) Introduction / Jonathan Swainger and Constance Backhouse
2) The King, the People, the Law ... and the Constitution: Justice Robert Thorpe and the Roots of Irish Whig Ideology in Early Upper Canada / John McLaren
3) William Augustus Miles (1796-1851): Crime, Policing, and Moral Entrepreneurship in England and Australia / David Philips
4) Macleod at Law: A Judicial Biography of James Farquharson Macleod, 1874-94 / Roderick G. Martin
5) "Don’t You Bully Me ... Justice I Want If There Is Justice To Be Had": The Rape of Mary Ann Burton, London, Ontario 1907 / Constance Backhouse
6) Murdered Women and Mythic Villains: The Criminal Case and the Imaginary Criminal in the Canadian West, 1886-1930 / Lesley Erickson
7) Boomtown Brothels in the Kootenays, 1895-1905 / Charleen P. Smith
8) "Imagine That! A Lady Going to an Office!": Janet Kathleen Gilley / Joan Brockman and Dorothy E. Chunn
9) Incarcerating Holiness: Religious Enthusiasm and the Law in Oregon, 1904 / Jim Phillips, Kelly Deluca, and Rosemary Gartner
10) Police Culture in British Columbia and "Ordinary Duty" in the Peace River Country, 1910-39 / Jonathan Swainger
Contributors
Index