Overview
The fifth and final volume of the Canadian State Trials series examines political trials and national security measures during the period 1939 to 1990. Essays by historians and legal scholars shed light on experiences during the Second World War and its immediate aftermath, including uses of the War Measures Act and the Official Secrets Act, as the Cold War unfolded, on legal responses in Quebec to the FLQ (including the October Crisis), to labour strikes, and to Indigenous resistance and standoffs. The volume critically examines the historical and social context of the trials and measures resulting from these events, concluding the first comprehensive series on this important area of Canadian law and politics. The fifth volume's exploration of state responses to real and perceived security threats is particularly timely as Canada faces new challenges to the established order ranging from Indigenous nations demanding a new constitutional framework to protestors challenging discriminatory policing and contesting public health measures.
Full Product Details
Author: Barry Wright ,
Susan Binnie ,
Eric Tucker
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.70cm
, Height: 4.10cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.920kg
ISBN: 9781487546038
ISBN 10: 1487546033
Pages: 560
Publication Date: 09 November 2022
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
From trials that were sensational at the time to those ignored for decades and little known still today, Canadian State Trials Volume V illuminates significant political cases that Canada - with its self-image as a decent state that does not stoop to persecute - prefers to forget. Read it and remember. - Larry Hannant, Adjunct Associate Professor of History, University of Victoria This collection of essays is an impressive final volume in the monumental Canadian State Trials series. The contributors to Canadian State Trials Volume V explore state responses to protest, violence, and espionage, demonstrating how law served as both a tool of repression and resistance. The volume includes definitive analyses of the role of the law in several key events in Canadian history, including the Gouzenko Affair, FLQ Crisis, and Oka. - R. Blake Brown, Professor of History, Saint Mary's University This fifth and final volume of the extraordinary Canadian State Trials project is as timely as the series's origins in the 1970 October Crisis and P.E. Trudeau's invocation of the War Measures Act. Justin Trudeau's recent use of the similar, albeit heavily amended, Emergencies Act raises fundamental human rights issues which are fully examined here as in previous Canadian State Trials works. This latest volume combines critical interdisciplinary scholarship with historical and legal analysis of the highest order. - Gregory S. Kealey, Professor Emeritus of History, University of New Brunswick
From trials that were sensational at the time to those ignored for decades and little known still today, Canadian State Trials Volume V illuminates significant political cases that Canada - with its self-image as a decent state that does not stoop to persecute - prefers to forget. Read it and remember. - Larry Hannant, Adjunct Associate Professor of History, University of Victoria This collection of essays is an impressive final volume in the monumental Canadian State Trials series. The contributors to Canadian State Trials Volume V explore state responses to protest, violence, and espionage, demonstrating how law served as both a tool of repression and resistance. The volume includes definitive analyses of the role of the law in several key events in Canadian history, including the Gouzenko Affair, FLQ Crisis, and Oka. - R. Blake Brown, Professor of History, Saint Mary's University This fifth and final volume of the extraordinary Canadian State Trials project is as timely as the series's origins in the 1970 October Crisis and P.E. Trudeau's invocation of the War Measures Act. Justin Trudeau's recent use of the similar, albeit heavily amended, Emergencies Act raises fundamental human rights issues which are fully examined here as in previous Canadian State Trials works. This latest volume combines critical interdisciplinary scholarship with historical and legal analysis of the highest order. - Gregory S. Kealey, Professor Emeritus of History, University of New Brunswick
Author Information
Barry Wright is a professor of law and history at Carleton University. Susan Binnie is an independent scholar living in Toronto. Eric Tucker is a professor at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University.
