Riel's Defence
Perspectives on His Speeches
1st Edition
Published on 1. June 2014
340 pages
978-0-7735-9046-5 (ISBN)
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A multi-disciplinary study of two of the most poignant speeches in Canadian history.
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Hansen Hans V.:
Hans V. Hansen is professor of philosophy at the University of Windsor.Hans V. Hansen is professor of philosophy at the University of Windsor.
Hans V. Hansen is professor of philosophy at the University of Windsor.Hans V. Hansen is professor of philosophy at the University of Windsor.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Preface to the Texts of Louis Riel's Addresses to the Jury and the Court
- Louis Riel's Address to the Jury, 31 July 1885
- Louis Riel's Address to the Court, 1 August 1885
- 1 The Queen vs Louis Riel: The Historical Context
- 2 "Through the Grace of God I Am the Founder of Manitoba": Louis Riel's Constitutional Thought
- 3 Louis Riel's Trial Speeches
- 4 The Use and Force of Rhetorical Strategies in Louis Riel's First Speech
- 5 Narrative and Logical Orders in Louis Riel's Address to the Jury
- 6 "A New German-Indian World" in the North-West: A Métis Deconstruction of the Rhetoric of Immigration in Louis Riel's Trial Speeches
- 7 Reconstructing the Substantive Argument in Louis Riel's Address to the Jury
- 8 "An Insane and Irresponsible Government": Louis Riel and the Representation of Responsibility
- 9 "Who Starts the Nations?" Louis Riel and the Question of Geopolitical Legitimacy
- 10 Louis Riel's Ethos and the Différend
- 11 The Case of Two Trials, Louis Riel and Socrates: Intersections, Overlaps, Divergences
- Contributors
- Index
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