Borderline crime : fugitive criminals and the challenge of the border, 1819-1914 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Miller, Bradley W. (Bradley Wayne), 1968- author.
Imprint:Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, [2016]
©2016
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History series.
Subject:Criminal law -- Canada -- History -- 19th century.
Criminal law -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
Criminal law -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Criminal law -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Sovereignty -- History.
LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
HISTORY / Canada / General
Boundaries.
Criminal law.
Sovereignty.
Canada -- Boundaries -- United States.
United States -- Boundaries -- Canada.
Canada.
United States.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11408379
Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:9781487512835
148751283X
9781487501273
1487501277
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 3, 2016).
Summary:Borderline Crime examines how law reacted to the challenge of the border in British North America and post-Confederation Canada. Miller also reveals how the law remained confused, amorphous, and often ineffectual at confronting the threat of the border to the rule of law.
Other form:Print version: Miller, Bradley W. (Bradley Wayne), 1968- Borderline crime. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, [2016] 9781487501273 1487501277