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Gordon W. Smith, P. Whitney Lackenbauer - Historical and Legal Study of Sovereignty in the Canadian North, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

Historical and Legal Study of Sovereignty in the Canadian North

Terrestrial Sovereignty, 1870-1939

Av Gordon W. Smith, P. Whitney Lackenbauer

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Beskrivning
Gordon W. Smith, PhD, dedicated much of his life to researching Canada's sovereignty in the Arctic. His 1952 dissertation from Columbia University on ""The Historical and Legal Background of Canada's Arctic Claims"" remains a foundational work on the topic, as does his 1966 chapter ""Sovereignty in the North: The Canadian Aspect of an International Problem"" in R. St. J. Macdonald's The Arctic Frontier.A Historical and Legal Study of Sovereignty in the Canadian North is the first in a project to edit and publish Smith's unpublished work, a manuscript on sovereignty and related Law of the Sea issues. Researched and written over three decades, this comprehensive and thoroughly documented study offers important insights into evolving understandings of Canada's sovereignty from the original transfers of the northern territories to the young dominion through the start of the Second World War. With Arctic issues once again at the forefront of public debate, this invaluable resource, available to researchers outside of government for the first time, explains how Canada laid the historical and legal foundations to support its longstanding, well-established sovereignty over Arctic lands.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2014-11-30
  • Mått: 225 x 278 x 28 mm
  • Vikt: 1 350 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Northern Lights
  • Antal sidor: 512
  • Förlag: University of Calgary Press
  • ISBN: 9781552387207
  • Utmärkelser: Winner of Canadian Nautical Research Society Keith Matthews Award 2015
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DR. GORDON W. SMITH (1918-2000) was a historian who spent his early career as a professor in Canada, the West Indies, and Africa. He devoted the last twenty-five years of his life to researching and writing the international history of the Canadian Arctic. P. Whitney Lackenbauer is a professor of History at St. Jerome's University (University of Waterloo) who specializes in Arctic sovereignty and security issues, Aboriginal-state relations, circumpolar history, and modern Canadian military, diplomatic and political history. He is the editor of the multi-award-winning A Historical and Legal Study of Sovereignty in the Canadian North (UCalgary Press).

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The book is a significant contribution to the field of Arctic studies whether those studies involve history, law, political science or other cognate areas where questions of Canadian sovereignty over the Arctic lands are mooted. It is a critical part of Canadian history and while there have been recent books on some of the contents of the manuscript, none approach the depth of what Smith accomplished. This is a major and brilliant piece of work on a subject of high interest and importance nationally and globally. - Ted L. McDorman, Professor of Law and of Geography, University of Victoria

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