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by James Murray Beck
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1957
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1957
Here is a well-documented study of the structure, historical development, and present condition of the government of Nova Scotia. It deals with one of the oldest constitutions in Canada, one which was not created by statute but by the prerogative of the Crown.
Nova Scotia has two major claims...
The King's Body
Burial and Succession in Late Anglo-Saxon England
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
The King’s Body investigates the role of royal bodies, funerals, and graves in English succession debates from the death of Alfred the Great in 899 through the Norman Conquest in 1066. Using contemporary texts and archaeological evidence, Nicole Marafioti reconstructs the political activity that...
Law of the Land
The Advent of the Torrens System in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
How was it that the Torrens system, a mid-nineteenth-century reform of land titles registration from distant South Australia, gradually replaced the inherited Anglo-Canadian common law system of land registration? In The Law of the Land, Greg Taylor traces the spread of the Torrens system, from its...
Wives & Property
Reform of the Married Women's Property Law in Nineteenth-Century England
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1983
In the 1870s Millicent Garrett Fawcett had her purse snatched by a young thief in London. When he appeared in court to testify, she heard the young man charged with 'stealing from the person of Millicent Fawcett a purse containing £1 18s 6d the property of Henry Fawcett.' Long after the episode she...
Associations and Law
The Classical and Early Christian Stages
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1977
George Heiman has translated the discussion of classical and early Christian laws of association from the major works by Grotto Gierke, Das deutsche Genossenschaftsrecht. This work complements F.W. Maitland's translation of a later part under the title, The Political Theories of the Middle Ages, and...
The Idea of a Moral Economy
Gerard of Siena on Usury, Restitution, and Prescription
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
The Idea of a Moral Economy is the first modern edition and English translation of three questions disputed at the University of Paris in 1330 by the theologian Gerard of Siena. The questions represent the most influential late medieval formulation of the natural law argument against usury and the...
by Mark w. Frankena, David T. Scheffman
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1980
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1980
This book describes and analyses the provincial government's role in municipal and regional planning. The conversion of farmland to urban and other uses is discussed, as are the issues raised by the reports of the Ontario Planning Act Review Committee and the Federal/Provincial Task Force on the Supply...
The University of Toronto
A History, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The University of Toronto is Canada’s leading university and one of Canada’s most important cultural and scientific institutions. In this history of the University from its origin as King’s College in 1827 to the present, Martin Friedland brings personalities, events, and changing visions and...
None Is Too Many
Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933-1948
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award (Holocaust Category)
Winner of the Canadian Historical Association John A. Macdonald Prize
Featured in The Literary Review of Canada 100: Canada’s Most Important Books
[This] is a story best summed up in the words of an anonymous senior...
Erasmus of Rotterdam
Advocate of a New Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
This book provides the first analysis of the development of Erasmus’ historical methodology and its impact on Roman Catholic and Protestant theologians. Combining a biography of Erasmus with the larger theological debates and the intellectual history of his time, Christine Christ-von Wedel reveals...
by Paul S. Fritz
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1975
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1975
Since the rise of the modern nation state in Europe, political leaders have had to cope with the problems of conspiracy and internal security. The English Ministers and Jacobitism between the Rebellions of 1715 and 1745 is a study of the response made to these twin problems by the British central...
Diaspora in the Countryside
Two Mennonite Communities and Mid-Twentieth Century Rural Disjuncture
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
From the 1930s to the 1980s, the North American countryside faced a profound cultural transformation in which a once-unified rural society became fragmented and dispersed. Families wishing to remain on the farm were required to accept new levels of automation, while others, unwilling or unable to...
Commemorating Canada
History, Heritage, and Memory, 1850s-1990s
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Commemorating Canada is a concise narrative overview of the development of history and commemoration in Canada, designed for use in courses on public history, historical memory, heritage preservation, and related areas.
Examining why, when, where, and for whom historical narratives have been...
The Pope's Dilemma
Pius XII Faces Atrocities and Genocide in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Pope Pius XII presided over the Catholic Church during one of the most challenging moments in its history. Elected in early 1939, Pius XII spoke out against war and destruction, but his refusal to condemn Nazi Germany and its allies for mass atrocities and genocide remains controversial almost seventy...