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F. Murray Greenwood and Barry Wright (eds.), Canadian State Trials, Volume I: Law, Politics, and Security Measures, 1608–1837. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1996, xiv + 742 pages; - F. Murray Greenwood and Barry Wright (eds.), Canadian State Trials, Volume II: Rebellion and Invasion in the Canadas, 1837–1839. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2002, xix + 499 pages.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2014

Louis A. Knafla
Louis A. Knafla
Affiliation:
Department of History, University of Calgary
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Canadian Journal of Law and Society / La Revue Canadienne Droit et Société , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , April 2004 , pp. 201 - 205
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References

1 See, for example, the classic study of Bellamy, John, The Law of Treason in England in the Later Middle Ages (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 See Heath, John, Torture and English Law: An administrative and legal history from the Plantegenets to the Stuarts (Westport: Greenwood, 1982).Google Scholar

3 For early modern times, see the pathbreaking work of Braddick, Michael J., State Formation in Early Modern England c. 1550–1700 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).CrossRefGoogle Scholar For the role of the state in the United States, see the provocative and controversial work of Horowitz, Morton J.: The Transformation of American Law 1780–1860 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977)Google Scholar; and his sequel, The Transformation of American Law 1870–1960: The Crisis of Legal Orthodoxy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992); and for Canada, “Introduction and Essays” in Knafla, Louis A. & Binnie, Susan, eds., Law, Society, and the State: Essays in Modem Legal History (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995).Google Scholar

4 The state trials discussed before 1837 in vol. II were in Nova Scotia 1777 at 182–84, Lower Canada 1797 at 263–69, and Upper Canada 1814 at 387–95.

5 McNaught, Kenneth, “Political Trials and the Canadian Political Tradition” in Friedland, Martin, ed., Courts and Trials: A Multidisciplinary Approach (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1975)Google Scholar; and more generally, his The Pelican History of Canada (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1969).