Regulating Lives: Historical Essays on the State, Society, the Individual, and the Law
Robert Menzies (Ed.)
This book examines Canadian experiences of social control, moralregulation, and governmentality during the late nineteenth and earlytwentieth centuries. Informed by the wealth of theoretical andhistorical writings that have recently emerged on these subjects, thecontributors explore diverse state, social, legal, and human encounterswith the regulation of lives in British Columbia and Canadian history.Incest in the criminal courts, racial-ethnic dimensions of alcoholregulation, public health initiatives around venereal disease, and theseizure and indoctrination of Doukhobor children, among other issues,are examined in these nine original essays.
This collection will interest scholars, researchers, practitioners,and students of a wide range of contexts including law, history,sociology, criminology, women’s studies, Native studies, socialwork, and political science.
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Reviews for Regulating Lives: Historical Essays on the State, Society, the Individual, and the Law
Jonathan Swainger
The Canadian Historical Review, 84:4, December 2003
This book will be of great interest to those intrigued by legal history and, more specifically, the role the law has played in constructing people’s lives, perceptions and experiences.
Lindsay Ferguson
Saskatchewan Law Review, Vol. 66
I hope too that it will be widely read on both sides of the Atlantic, both as containing interesting and important history and as inviting debate on the relationship between the data of historical experience and the concepts around which those data are arranged. I am glad that I read it.
Richard W. Ireland
Journal of Law and Society, Sept 2003
John McLaren’s study of the seizure and indoctrination of Sons of Freedom children 1950-60 ... is a masterpiece that examines the history of the Sons’ attempt to keep their children out of public schools and preserve their unique way of life. Having a firm foot on the ground and in local, provincial, and federal sources, McLaren’s work is a model of legal-historical research and writing. This collection could not be more complete ... This is a model study of how local history can inform our past and the making of public policy in the future.
Louis A. Knafla
Canadian Journal of Law and Society, Vol. 18