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W. Wesley Pue, (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, October, 1988) (co-edited with J.B. Wright)
Canadian Perspectives on Law and Society: Essays in Legal History

CONTENTS

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION

Chapter I
An Introduction to Canadian Law in History
by Barry Wright
PART TWO: APPROACHES: THEORY AND METHODOLOGY
Chapter II
Theory and Method in the History of Law
by W. Wesley Pue

Chapter III
Some Reflections on the "New" Legal History in Relation to Weber's Sociology of Law
by Susan Binnie

Chapter IV
Doing Justice to "British Justice": Law, Ideology and Canadian Historiography
by Greg Marquis

Chapter V
Dialogical Jurisprudence
by David Howes

Chapter VI
Maternal Feminism, Legal Professionalism and Political Progmatism: The Rise and Fall of Magistrate Margaret Patterson, 1922 - 1934
by Dorothy E. Chunn

Chapter VII
Very Late Loyalist Fantasies: Nostalgic Tory History and the Rule of Law in Upper Canada
by Paul Romney

PART THREE: SOCIAL WELFARE AND LABOUR RELATIONS
Chapter VIII
Issues in Social Welfare and Labour Relations
by W. Wesley Pue

Chapter IX
Assistance to Veterans and their Dependants: Steps on the Way to the Administrative State, 1914-1929
by Margaret E. McCallum

Chapter X
The Cold Hand of Charity: The Court of Quarter Sessions and Poor Relief in the Niagara District, 1828 - 1841
by David R. Murray

Chapter XI
Living Wage and Living Profit: Wage Determination by Conciliation Boards under the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, 1907 - 1925
by Jereme Webber

PART FOUR: CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND CIVIL LIBERTIES
Chapter XII
Issues in Criminal Law and Authority: Civil Liberties and Morality
by Barry Wright

Chapter XIII
The General Court Martial of 1838 - 39 in Lower Canada: an Abuse of Justice
by F. Murray Greenwood

Chapter XIV
The Drafting and Passage of the War Measures Act in 1914 and 1927: Object Lessons in the Need for Vigilance
by F. Murrary Greenwood

Chapter XV
The Canadian Magistracy and the Anti-White Slavery Campaign, 1900 - 1920
by John McLaren