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The imperial challenge : Quebec and Britain in the age of the American Revolution
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ISBN: 1282851349 9786612851346 0773562001 9780773562004 0773506985 9780773506985 0773512055 9780773512054 Year: 1989 Publisher: Montreal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press,

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Philip Lawson examines the profound effect that the conquest of Quebec had on British politics and imperial thought in the years leading to the signing of the Quebec Act in 1774. He reinterprets the standard accounts of the conquest of Quebec in 1760, challenging prevailing ideas about political traditions and philosophical assumptions in mid-eighteenth-century Britain. Lawson focuses attention not only on the changing nature of British imperial governance in the age of the American Revolution but also on the significant new developments taking place in Britain at the time. Quebec played a pivotal role in the shift away from the rigid principles of Protestant political exclusionism by challenging the fundamental tenets of English constitutional order. The attempt to bring English law, religion, and custom to Quebec forced the State to revise its whole approach to the existing political and religious problems of the day. In forming his argument, Lawson has made use of material which has recently come to light.

Promoters, patriots, and partisans
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ISBN: 1282056239 9786612056239 1442678828 9781442678828 9780802067166 0802026834 0802067166 9780802026835 Year: 1989 Publisher: Toronto [Ont.] University of Toronto Press

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During the nineteenth-century, the writing of history in English-speaking Canada changed from promotional efforts by amateurs to an academically-based discipline. Professor Taylor charts this transition in a comprehensive history. The early historians - the promoters of the title - sought to further their own interests through exxagerated accounts of a particular colony to which they had developed a transient attachment. Eventually this group was replaced by patriots, whose writing was influenced by loyalty to the land of their brith and residence. This second generation of historians attempted both to defend their respective colonies by explaining away past disappointments and to fit events into a predicitve pattern of progress and development. In the process, they established distinctive identities for each of the British North American colonies.Eventually a confrontation occurred between those who saw Canada as a nation and those whose traditions and vistas were provincial in emphasis. Ultimately the former prevailed, only to find the present and future too complex and too ominous to understand. Historians ssubsequently lost their sense of purpose and direction and fell into partisan disagreement or pessimistic nostalgia. This abandonment of their role paved the way for the new, professional breed of historian as the twentieth century opened.In the course of his analysis, Taylor considers a number of key issues abotu the writing of history: the kind of people who undertake it and their motivation for doing so, the intended and actual effects of their work, its influence on subsequent historical writing, and the development of uniform and accepted standards of professional practice.


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The ordering of justice : a study of accused persons as dependants in the criminal process
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ISBN: 1282040030 9786612040030 1442678119 9781442678118 9780802024510 0802024513 9780802064639 0802024513 0802064639 9781282040038 1442638532 Year: 1989 Publisher: Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press,

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From the point of his arrest through to the final disposition of his case, the authors follow the accused as he proceeds through the criminal control system. They draw a picture of one who is dependent upon the orders and decisions of the police, crown attorney, defence lawyer, and judge and not a defendant with significant autonomy. Substudies conducted under a program of the Centre of Criminology provide empirical material on patrol police, detectives, crown attorneys and defence lawyers and are complemented by the authors? own interviews of accused persons. They produce a unique picture of the person who stands accused: unlike the official agents who are regular and experienced participants in the criminal process, the accused is a ?one-shot? player.As a dependant he is subject to the orders and decisions of the official criminal control agents; he fails to exercise what appear externally as his formal rights because the apparent costs exceed the advantages. He complies with police searches, fails to remain silent, fails to call a third party, gives a statement, often does not obtain a lawyer, routinely accepts his lawyer?s advice, rarely demands a trial, often remains silent in court, and very rarely considers an appeal. The ordering which the accused meets out of court is reproduced in the public forum of the court. Through the display of formal legal rationality there and in the belief that matters ?could have been a lot worse,? he experiences the ?majesty, justice, and mercy? of the criminal process and, in turn, accords legitimacy to the actions taken against him. The authors discuss prospects for changing the criminal process and conclude that the range of reforms that have been advocated, and sometimes implemented, does not lead to an alteration of the accused?s position within the ordering of justice because the system is not truly adversarial. Rather, it serves the interests of the state in ordering the population as well as professional interests of those who man the system.

Frontier and metropolis
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ISBN: 1282056611 9786612056611 1442675101 9781442675100 9780802069078 0802058248 080206907X 9780802058249 1442654457 Year: 1989 Publisher: Toronto [Ont.] University of Toronto Press

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The regional character of Canada and the crucial role of metropolitan development in its history have been recurring themes in the work of J.M.S. Careless. In these essays he returns to those themes, discussing how national and regional identity in Canada show vital links with metropolitan-hinterland relationship across time and space.The first essay presents an overall appraisal of the historic connections between metropolitan centres and frontiers or regions in Canada. These connections might be manifested in economic structures, political fabrics, or social networks, and also in modes of opinion and popular images and traditions. The second part of the book inquires into some major conceptual treatments given to frontier and metropolis in history. The third seeks to evaluate the impact of metropolitanism on distinctive features of identity that are revealed in Canadian historical experience. A fourth essays rounds out the volume by discussing the influence of external metropolanism in Canada.Careless endows his subject with the combined fornce of his own continuing research, his sensitivity to the new historical scholarship, and the lively and penetrating mind that have made him one of Canada's leading historians for more than thirty years.


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Culture.
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ISSN: 2563710X Year: 1989 Publisher: [Abbotsford, B.C.?] : Canadian Anthropology Society = Société canadienne d'anthropologie,


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Constitutional forum
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ISSN: 19274165 Year: 1989 Publisher: Edmonton, Alta. : Centre for Constitutional Studies,


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Historical studies in education = : Revue d'histoire de l'éducation.
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ISSN: 08435057 19119674 Year: 1989 Publisher: London, Ont. : Canadian History of Education Association = Association canadienne d'histoire de l'éducation,


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Provincial and territorial legislatures in Canada
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ISBN: 9786612056253 1442678879 1282056255 9781442678873 0802058256 0802067344 9780802067340 9780802058256 9781282056251 Year: 1989 Publisher: Toronto, [Ontario] : University of Toronto Press,

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Although they are central to the democratic process in Canada, surprisingly little has been published about some of the provincial legislatures and those of the Yukon and Northwest territories. In this volume, scholars and legislative staff members provide an overview of the role of provincial and territorial legislatures in governmental processes and in shaping their respective societies.A number of common themes are addressed: the historical development of the individual legislatures; the influence of political culture; the social backgrounds of the members; the structure and effectiveness of the committee system; the influence of political parties and of local customs on members' behaviour; mechanisms for enhancing government accountabiolity; members' services and facilities; and recent reforms.Together these papers offer an accessible and straightforward guide to key political institutions, revealing both the elements they share and those that make each legislature distinctive.


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Canadian directories, 1790-1987 : a bibliography and place-name index.
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ISBN: 0660547864 0660547899 0660547902 0660547910 9780660547862 Year: 1989 Publisher: Ottawa Ministre des approvisionnements et services Canada

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National Library of Canada --- Archives nationales du Canada. --- Bibliothèque nationale du Canada --- Catalogues --- Canada --- Répertoires --- Index --- Répertoires géographiques --- National Archives of Canada --- Catalogs --- Directories --- Bibliography --- #BIBC:CANADIANA 2000 --- 971 --- 094:971 --- Geschiedenis van Canada --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Geschiedenis van Canada --- -National Archives of Canada. Library --- -Bet ha-sefarim ha-leʾumi shel Ḳanadah --- Bibliothèque nationale du Canada --- Canada. --- NLC --- Canadian Bibliographic Centre --- Library and Archives Canada --- -Bibliography --- -Catalogs. --- -Catalogs --- 094:971 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Geschiedenis van Canada --- 971 Geschiedenis van Canada --- Répertoires --- Répertoires géographiques --- Canada (Province) --- Province of Canada --- Dominion of Canada --- Ḳanadah --- Ḳanade --- Kanada (Dominion) --- Chanada --- كندا --- Канада --- Καναδάς --- Kanadas --- Republica de Canadá --- Dominio del Canadá --- Kanado --- کانادا --- Ceanada --- Yn Chanadey --- Chanadey --- 캐나다 --- Kʻaenada --- Kanakā --- קנדה --- カナダ --- Canadae --- Kanadaja --- 加拿大 --- קאנאדע --- National Archives of Canada. --- Catalogs. --- Upper Canada --- Lower Canada --- National library of Canada --- Jianada --- Kaineḍā --- Canada - Directories - Bibliography - Catalogs

The Domestic battleground : Canada and the Arab-Israeli conflict
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ISBN: 128285139X 9786612851391 0773562060 9780773562066 9780773507050 0773507051 Year: 1989 Publisher: Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press,

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Few international issues have aroused as much passionate interest and political activity among Canadians. The contest on "the domestic battleground" has been decisive in determining Canada's policies in the Middle East. The Domestic Battleground provides the history and background needed to understand Canadian attitudes toward both the explosive unrest occurring in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the participants in the conflict - Israel, the Palestinians, and the rest of the Arab world. Taras and Goldberg analyse the struggles over the levers of decision making in Ottawa and the battle between moral stances and convictions that has taken place among concerned Canadians. The Domestic Battleground is the first book devoted to analysing the study of Canada's Middle Eastern policy. David Taras and David H. Goldberg take readers inside the Canadian decision-making process on key issues regarding the Middle East over the last forty years. Bringing together articles by scholars with differing perspectives, this volume brings to light the positions and actions of Canadian political leaders - Mackenzie King, Lester B. Pearson, Joe Clark, Pierre Trudeau, and Brian Mulroney - and assess the impact of media coverage, corporate and governmental interests, and Arab and Jewish lobby groups. The Domestic Battleground addresses the narrowing of the emotional distance separating Canada from the conflicts and disputes indigenous to the Middle East and responds to the presence of the Arab-Israeli conflict in the mainstream of daily life and politics in Canada.

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