TY  - BOOK
AU  - Girard,Philip
TI  - Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America: Beamish Murdoch of Halifax
SN  - 9781442699212
AV  - KE411.M79 G573 2011 
U1  - 340.092 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Toronto
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Antecedents -- 3 Apprenticeship -- 4 The Legal Profession in Nova Scotia: Organization and Mobility -- 5 The Making of a Colonial Lawyer, 1822-7 -- 6 The Maturing of a Colonial Lawyer, 1828-50 -- 7 The Politics of a Colonial Lawyer: Murdoch, Howe, and Responsible Government -- 8 Law and Politics in the Colonial City: Murdoch as Recorder of Halifax, 1850-60 -- 9 Law, Identity, and Improvement: Murdoch as Cultural Producer -- 10 Epilogue -- 11 Conclusion -- APPENDIX -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- U -- V -- W -- Y
N2  - Centred on one pre-Confederation lawyer whose career epitomizes the trends of his day, Beamish Murdoch (1800-1876), Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North Americamakes an important and compelling contribution to Canadian legal history
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