The Rule of the Admirals : : Law, Custom, and Naval Government in Newfoundland, 1699-1832 / / Jerry Bannister.

Jerry Bannister's The Rule of the Admirals examines governance in Newfoundland from the rule of the fishing admirals in 1699 to the establishment of representative government in 1832. It offers the first in-depth account of the rise and fall of the system of naval government that dominated the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]
©2003
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Tables, Illustrations, and Appendices
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Fishing Admirals System
  • 3 An Unruly Set of People: The Struggle for Judicial Authority
  • 4 The Establishment of Naval Government
  • 5 A Fief of the Admiralty: Newfoundland under Naval Rule
  • 6 Using Mercy and Terror: The Patterns of Criminal Justice
  • 7 Enforcing the Social Order: Punishment in a Fishing Society
  • 8 The Fall of Naval Government
  • 9 Conclusion
  • Notes on Primary Sources
  • Notes
  • Bibliography of Primary Sources
  • Index