Ebook: Regulating Lives: Historical Essays on the State, Society, the Individual, and the Law

A broad-ranging examination of Canadian experiences of social control, moral regulation, and governmentality during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this collection explores the treatment of incest in the criminal courts, racial-ethnic dimensions of alcohol regulation, public health initiatives around venereal disease, and the seizure and indoctrination of Doukhobor children, among other issues.