A Rush to Judgment: The Unfair Trial of Louis Riel 1459746090, 9781459746091

Did Louis Riel have a fair trial? The trial and conviction of Louis Riel for treason in the summer of 1885 and his exec

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A Rush to Judgment: The Unfair Trial of Louis Riel
1459746090, 9781459746091

The transcript of Louis Riel’s trial has never been readily accessible to the general reader interested in the 1885 Rebe

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A spiritual biography that takes Louis Riel seriously as a religious figure. Flanagan tells the story of Riel’s career a

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A first-hand chronicle of Wolseley’s expedition to end Riel’s Red River Rebellion by a remarkable trio embedded on the m

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The most comprehensive treatment of the representations of Louis Riel in Canadian literature, The False Traitor will be

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The nineteenth-century Métis politician and mystic Louis Riel has emerged as one of the most popular - and elusive - fig

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The Legacy of Louis Riel provides an overview of the ideas that guided the leader of the Métis people. Louis Riel was a

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What are the aims of a criminal trial? What social functions should it perform? And how is the trial as a political inst

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The first book to challenge the Warren Commission findings presents case after case of ignored or twisted evidence to of

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Teachersof literature make judgments about value.Theytelltheirstudentswhichworks are powerful, beautiful, surprising, st

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The criminal trial is under attack. Traditional principles have been challenged or eroded; in England and Wales the righ

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