'Every boy ought to learn to shoot and to obey orders': Guns, Boys, and the Law in English Canada from the late Nineteenth Century to the Great War

I am pleased to introduce Boyhood Studies, Volume 11, Issue 1. This issue’s authors unanimously invite an appreciation of the many regional, temporal and contextual inflections of manliness-in-the-making. After all: “Among boys, as among men, there are ‘all sorts and conditions;’ environment moulds them” (Anon. 1890: 147). This merits a bit of intercontinental timetravel. Ecce puer: from Lord Baden-Powell’s and American contemporaries’ middle ages to late nineteenth-century Mexico’s French Third Republic, back to Baden-Powell and into the Great War, and back again to presentday Mexico. In Mexico, on both visits, we are travelling back and forth as well, between the rural and urban experience.

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3. “A rifle in the hands of every able-bodied man in the Dominion of Canada under proper auspices”: Arming Britons and Disarming Immigrants from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Great War

Arming and Disarming ◽

10.3138/9781442665590-008 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 81-131

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Late Nineteenth Century ◽

Great War ◽

Late Nineteenth ◽

The Great War

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12. Confederation, Adjudicative Culture, and the Law of the Constitution: The Late Nineteenth-Century Persistence of Local Autonomy in the Nova Scotia Supreme Court

The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1754-2004 ◽

10.3138/9781442659834-017 ◽

2004 ◽

Author(s):

William Lahey

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Nova Scotia ◽

Supreme Court ◽

Late Nineteenth Century ◽

Local Autonomy ◽

Late Nineteenth ◽

The Law

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Lost Voices: Chinese Muslim Modernists and the Issue of Polygamy in the Republican Era

International Journal of Asian Studies ◽

10.1017/s1479591420000364 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

pp. 103-117

Author(s):

Bin Chen

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Late Nineteenth Century ◽

Chinese Society ◽

Scholarly Work ◽

Polygamous Marriage ◽

Modern Chinese ◽

Republican Era ◽

Vital Component ◽

Late Nineteenth ◽

The Law

AbstractThis study brings the voices of Chinese Muslim modernists back into discussions on polygamy in the Republican era. Starting from the late nineteenth century, abolishing the practice of polygamous marriage became a vital component of Chinese modernizing elites’ vision of modern Chinese society, as they saw polygamy as an obstacle to modernization. Chinese Muslim modernists actively engaged in China's struggle with polygamy. Their dynamic discussions on polygamy were not insignificant and peripheral. On the contrary, when the Republican law promoting monogamy was hard to implement, some Chinese Muslim modernists pushed their fellow Muslims to set examples for other Chinese to obey the law. The Chinese translations of Arabic scholarly work even helped some Chinese Muslim modernists take a different approach to the issue of polygamy by arguing that polygamy, if properly regulated, could be beneficial to modern societies.

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Hermann Cohen and the Jewish Neo-Kantians

The Image of the Non-Jew in Judaism ◽

10.3828/liverpool/9781906764074.003.0015 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 213-224

Author(s):

David Novak

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

German Society ◽

Late Nineteenth Century ◽

Kantian Ethics ◽

Moral Law ◽

Starting Point ◽

Late Nineteenth ◽

The Law ◽

Hermann Cohen ◽

Secular State

This chapter reviews Hermann Cohen's presentation of the Noahide laws. Cohen desired to show that Jews in late nineteenth-century European (and especially German) society could be and were in fact good citizens, and that their Judaism was an aid to citizenship. Judaism was not an insular religion, and Jews supported the secular state, Cohen affirmed. For instance, he maintained that the aim of the law of adjudication was “objective lawfulness,” a signal starting-point for any society, secular or religious. Cohen's view of moral law was shaped by Kantian ethics. He argues that Noahide law confirms the humanity of gentiles, and that this rabbinic construction was the first of its kind. Recognizing the humanity of others is the beginning of autonomous ethics. For Cohen, the human ethical future is best presented through Jewish universalism, leading to universal ethical monotheism in the messianic age. This last point has been central to liberal Jewish theology since Cohen's time.

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Torts

A History of American Law ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190070885.003.0015 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 443-462 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Lawrence M. Friedman

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

English Language ◽

Industrial Revolution ◽

Tort Law ◽

Growth Spurt ◽

Late Nineteenth Century ◽

The Subject ◽

Late Nineteenth ◽

The Law ◽

Private Wrongs

This chapter discusses the development of tort law in the second half of the nineteenth century. Tort law experienced its biggest growth spurt in the late nineteenth century. The legal world began to sit up and pay attention. The very first English-language treatise on torts appeared in 1859: Francis Hilliard’s book, The Law of Torts, Or Private Wrongs. Then came Charles G. Addison, Wrongs and Their Remedies in 1860, in England. By 1900, there was an immense literature on the law of torts; Joel Bishop and Thomas M. Cooley had written imposing treatises on the subject; the case law had swollen to heroic proportions. Tort law was a product of the industrial revolution; England here had a head start; problems emerged there first, and so did their tentative legal solutions.

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