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Book Colour Coded

    Book Details:
  • Author : Constance Backhouse
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 1999-11-20
  • ISBN : 1442690852
  • Pages : 505 pages

Download or read book Colour Coded written by Constance Backhouse and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1999-11-20 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically Canadians have considered themselves to be more or less free of racial prejudice. Although this conception has been challenged in recent years, it has not been completely dispelled. In Colour-Coded, Constance Backhouse illustrates the tenacious hold that white supremacy had on our legal system in the first half of this century, and underscores the damaging legacy of inequality that continues today. Backhouse presents detailed narratives of six court cases, each giving evidence of blatant racism created and enforced through law. The cases focus on Aboriginal, Inuit, Chinese-Canadian, and African-Canadian individuals, taking us from the criminal prosecution of traditional Aboriginal dance to the trial of members of the 'Ku Klux Klan of Kanada.' From thousands of possibilities, Backhouse has selected studies that constitute central moments in the legal history of race in Canada. Her selection also considers a wide range of legal forums, including administrative rulings by municipal councils, criminal trials before police magistrates, and criminal and civil cases heard by the highest courts in the provinces and by the Supreme Court of Canada. The extensive and detailed documentation presented here leaves no doubt that the Canadian legal system played a dominant role in creating and preserving racial discrimination. A central message of this book is that racism is deeply embedded in Canadian history despite Canada's reputation as a raceless society. Winner of the Joseph Brant Award, presented by the Ontario Historical Society

Book Code de la chasse ou Commentaire de la loi nouvelle sur la chasse compar  e avec la loi du 30 avril 1790 et la loi fran  aise du 3 mai 1844

Download or read book Code de la chasse ou Commentaire de la loi nouvelle sur la chasse compar e avec la loi du 30 avril 1790 et la loi fran aise du 3 mai 1844 written by Renacle Joseph Bonjean and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Paris as Revolution

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  • Author : Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2023-11-10
  • ISBN : 0520323009
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Paris as Revolution written by Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In nineteenth-century Paris, passionate involvement with revolution turned the city into an engrossing object of cultural speculation. For writers caught between an explosive past and a bewildering future, revolution offered a virtuoso metaphor by which the city could be known and a vital principle through which it could be portrayed. In this engaging book, Priscilla Ferguson locates the originality and modernity of nineteenth-century French literature in the intersection of the city with revolution. A cultural geography, Paris as Revolution "reads" the nineteenth-century city not in literary works alone but across a broad spectrum of urban icons and narratives. Ferguson moves easily between literary and cultural history and between semiotic and sociological analysis to underscore the movement and change that fueled the powerful narratives defining the century, the city, and their literature. In her understanding and reconstruction of the guidebooks of Mercier, Hugo, Vallès, and others, alongside the novels of Flaubert, Hugo, Vallès, and Zola, Ferguson reveals that these works are themselves revolutionary performances, ones that challenged the modernizing city even as they transcribed its emergence. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.

Book Loi Du 3 Mai 1844 Sur La Police de La Chasse  Annotee  Commentee Et Mise a Jour  11E Edition

Download or read book Loi Du 3 Mai 1844 Sur La Police de La Chasse Annotee Commentee Et Mise a Jour 11E Edition written by France and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-14 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Minerva s Message

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  • Author : Martin S. Staum
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 1996-10-17
  • ISBN : 0773566244
  • Pages : 359 pages

Download or read book Minerva s Message written by Martin S. Staum and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1996-10-17 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In theory the CMPS was set up to enshrine the human and social studies that were at the heart of Enlightenment culture. Staum illustrates, however, that the Institute helped transform key ideas of the Enlightenment in order to maintain civil rights while upholding social stability, and that the social and political assumptions on which it was based affected notions of social science. He traces the careers of individual members and the factions within the Institute, arguing that the discord within the CMPS reflects the unravelling of Enlightenment culture. Minerva's Message presents a valuable overview of the intellectual life of the period and brings together new evidence about the social sciences in their nascent period.

Book Postcoloniality

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  • Author : Margaret A. Majumdar
  • Publisher : Berghahn Books
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9781845452520
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Postcoloniality written by Margaret A. Majumdar and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcolonial theory is one of the key issues of scholarly debates worldwide; debates, so the author argues, which are rather sterile and characterized by a repetitive reworking of old hackneyed issues, focussing on cultural questions of language and identity in particular. She explores the divergent responses to the debates on globalization.

Book Biodiversity and the Law

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  • Author : Charles R. McManis
  • Publisher : Earthscan
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 1849770573
  • Pages : 521 pages

Download or read book Biodiversity and the Law written by Charles R. McManis and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2012 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we promote global economic development, while simultaneously preserving local biological and cultural diversity? This authoritative volume, written by leading legal experts and biological and social scientists from around the world, addresses this question in all of its complexity. The first part of the book focuses on biodiversity and examines what we are losing, why and what is to be done. The second part addresses biotechnology and looks at whether it is part of the solution or part of the problem, or perhaps both. The third section examines traditional knowledge, explains what it is and how, if at all, it should be protected. The fourth and final part looks at ethnobotany and bioprospecting and offers practical lessons from the vast and diverse experiences of the contributors.

Book Nouveau code des chasses

Download or read book Nouveau code des chasses written by France and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nouveau code des chasses

Download or read book Nouveau code des chasses written by J.-L. Gillon and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Compl  ment du Code de la chasse ou Commentaire de la loi nouvelle sur la chasse   compar  e avec la loi du 30 avril 1790 et la loi fran  aise du 3 mai 1844

Download or read book Compl ment du Code de la chasse ou Commentaire de la loi nouvelle sur la chasse compar e avec la loi du 30 avril 1790 et la loi fran aise du 3 mai 1844 written by R. Bonjean and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of Science Fiction

Download or read book The History of Science Fiction written by A. Roberts and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-11-28 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of Science Fiction traces the origin and development of science fiction from Ancient Greece up to the present day. The author is both an academic literary critic and acclaimed creative writer of the genre. Written in lively, accessible prose it is specifically designed to bridge the worlds of academic criticism and SF fandom.

Book Age of the Democratic Revolution  A Political History of Europe and America  1760 1800  Volume 1

Download or read book Age of the Democratic Revolution A Political History of Europe and America 1760 1800 Volume 1 written by R. R. Palmer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Western world as a whole, the period from about 1760 to 1800 was the great revolutionary era in which the outlines of the modern democratic state came into being. It is the thesis of this major work that the American, French, and Polish revolutions, and the movements for political change in Britain, Ireland, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden, and other countries, though each distinctive in its own way, were all manifestations of recognizably similar political ideas, needs, and conflicts.

Book Ghost Brothers

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  • Author : Rony Blum
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780773528284
  • Pages : 476 pages

Download or read book Ghost Brothers written by Rony Blum and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rony Blum explores how "phantom-mediated" interpretations of the past and present were key to the uniquely successful relationship that developed between French settlers and Natives in the Americas."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Book The Oxford History of Modern War

Download or read book The Oxford History of Modern War written by Charles Townshend and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a comprehensive overview of military conflict over several centuries, this book consists of fascinating thematic chapters covering air and sea warfare, combat experience, technology, and even opposition to war.

Book Nouveau code des chasses

Download or read book Nouveau code des chasses written by France and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contenant 1. une introduction historique au droit de chasse, 2. la loi fondamentale du 3 mai 1844 et les autres lois, décrets, ordonnances et réglements sur la police de la chasse, 3. les discussions parlementaires qui expliquent les textes, 4. les circulaires des ministres et directeurs généraux qui s'y rapportent, 5. la jurisprudence des cours et tribunaux.