| Regulating Lives: Historical Essays on the State, Society, the Individual, and the Law Contributor(s): Menzies, Robert (Editor) |
|
 |
ISBN: 0774808861 ISBN-13: 9780774808866 Publisher: University of British Columbia Press OUR PRICE: $103.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Legal History - Social Science |
| Dewey: 303.330 |
| LCCN: 2002437301 |
| Physical Information: 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book examines Canadian experiences of social control, moral regulation, and governmentality during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Informed by the wealth of theoretical and historical writings that have recently emerged on these subjects, the contributors explore diverse state, social, legal, and human encounters with the regulation of lives in British Columbia and Canadian history. Incest in the criminal courts, racial-ethnic dimensions of alcohol regulation, public health initiatives around venereal disease, and the seizure and indoctrination of Doukhobor children, among other issues, are examined in these nine original essays. |