ISBN:
9780774808866
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (324 p)
Series Statement:
Law and Society
Parallel Title:
Print version Regulating Lives
DDC:
303.33
Keywords:
British Columbia ; Social conditions ; 19th century
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British Columbia ; Social conditions ; 20th century
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British Columbia ; Social policy
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Law ; Social aspects ; British Columbia
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Social control ; British Columbia ; History ; 19th century
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Social control ; British Columbia ; History ; 20th century
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Regulating Lives -- Introduction -- 1 'A Strange Revolution in the Manners of the Country': Aboriginal-Settler Intermarriage in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia -- 2 Control of the Insane in British Columbia, 1849- 78: Care, Cure, or Confinement? -- 3 Racializing Prohibitions: Alcohol Laws and Racial/ Ethnic Minorities in British Columbia, 1871- 1927 -- 4 Secrets and Lies: The Criminalization of Incest and the (Re) Formation of the 'Private' in British Columbia, 1890- 1940 -- 5 'Charity Is One Thing and the Administration of Justice Is Another': Law and the Politics of Familial Regulation in Early Twentieth- Century British Columbia -- 6 Regulating the 'Respectable' Classes: Venereal Disease, Gender, and Public Health Initiatives in Canada, 1914- 35 -- 7 Race, Reason, and Regulation: British Columbia's Mass Exile of Chinese 'Lunatics' aboard the Empress of Russia, 9 February 1935 -- 8 The Politics of Naming: Constructing Prostitutes and Regulating Women in Vancouver, 1939- 45 -- 9 The State, Child Snatching, and the Law: The Seizure and Indoctrination of Sons of Freedom Children in British Columbia, 1950- 60 -- Postlude -- Contributors -- Index.
Description / Table of Contents:
""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Regulating Lives""; ""Introduction""; ""1 �A Strange Revolution in the Manners of the Country�: Aboriginal-Settler Intermarriage in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia""; ""2 Control of the Insane in British Columbia, 1849- 78: Care, Cure, or Confinement?""; ""3 Racializing Prohibitions: Alcohol Laws and Racial/ Ethnic Minorities in British Columbia, 1871- 1927""; ""4 Secrets and Lies: The Criminalization of Incest and the (Re) Formation of the �Private� in British Columbia, 1890- 1940""
Description / Table of Contents:
""5 �Charity Is One Thing and the Administration of Justice Is Another�: Law and the Politics of Familial Regulation in Early Twentieth- Century British Columbia""""6 Regulating the �Respectable� Classes: Venereal Disease, Gender, and Public Health Initiatives in Canada, 1914- 35""; ""7 Race, Reason, and Regulation: British Columbia�s Mass Exile of Chinese �Lunatics� aboard the Empress of Russia, 9 February 1935""; ""8 The Politics of Naming: Constructing Prostitutes and Regulating Women in Vancouver, 1939- 45""
Description / Table of Contents:
""9 The State, Child Snatching, and the Law: The Seizure and Indoctrination of Sons of Freedom Children in British Columbia, 1950- 60""""Postlude""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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