Canadian State Trials: II, Rebellion and Invasion in the Canadas, 1837-1839

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F. Murray Greenwood and Barry Wright (eds), Canadian State Trials: II, Rebellion and Invasion in the Canadas, 1837-1839 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 2002), xix + 499 pp. Cloth. £48. ISBN 0-8020-3748-8.

Was '1837' in Canada a single phenomenon, essentially the same rebellion in Upper and Lower Canada, with an integral after-shock breaking out a year later? To those who controlled colonial government, the successive disturbances seemed merely episodes in one continuous challenge to their authority. However, in their responses to the various manifestations of protest, they mixed law and power in different ways. This …