This, the nineteenth volume of Criminal Justice History, features seven original essays on the history of violent crime and punishments in North America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as w
Henceforth, each volume of the series will center on a general theme or subject indicated by its title, and will include essays and reviews. British and North American historians offer seven original
This study is devoted chiefly to Ellesmere's career and writings as Lord Chancellor, 1603–1617. After an introduction to his life and career from 1541 to 1603, Part One is a study of his role in the legal and political history of Jacobean England. In order to place the analysis of law and politics in a broader context, topics discussed include economics, religion, social customs and thought, in addition to questions concerning the forms of action at common law, disputes between the courts, law and equity, and the political activities of Parliament, the Privy Council, and the Crown. Part Two consists of a critical edition of eight of Ellesmere's little known or unidentified tracts on the royal prerogative, Anglo-Scots Union, the Parliament of 1604–1610, the administration of government, law reform, the ecclesiastical courts, Coke's Law Reports and the Chancery-Common Law conflict.
Delgamuukw. Mabo. Ngati Apa. These cases and others have inrecent years created a framework for litigating Aboriginal title incountries such as Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The contributorsto t
Laws and Societies in the Canadian Prairie West, 1670-1940 examines the legal history of the north-west frontier, from the earliest years of European-Native contact in the seventeenth century to the m
Legal scholars and practitioners, historians, and anthropologists who have worked with native peoples in the three countries explore issues of Aboriginal title in relatively similar time frames and un
When is a crime a crime--or an act condoned by a significant portion of society? When is a criminal a criminal--or a revolutionary or a national hero? As the chapters in this collection make clear, w
