• ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Contributors""; ""1 Instruments of Commerce and Authority: The Civil Courts in Upper Canada 1789â€?1812""; ""2 Legal Education in Upper Canada 1785â€?1889: The Law Society as Educator""; ""3 'The Ten Thousand Pound Job': Political Corruption, Equitable Jurisdiction, and the Public Interest in Upper Canada 1852â€?6""; ""4 Nineteenth-Century Canadian Rape Law 1800â€?92""; ""5 Law and Ideology: The Toronto Police Court 1850â€?80""; ""6 The Kamloops Outlaws and Commissions of Assize in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia""

• ""7 Private Rights and Public Purposes in the Lakes, Rivers, and Streams of Ontario 1870â€?1930""""8 'This Nuisance of Litigation': The Origins of Workers' Compensation in Ontario""; ""9 The Evolution of the Ontario Courts 1788â€?1981""; ""Table of Cases""; ""Index""

• ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Contributors""; ""1 Instruments of Commerce and Authority: The Civil Courts in Upper Canada 1789â€?1812""; ""2 Legal Education in Upper Canada 1785â€?1889: The Law Society as Educator""; ""3 'The Ten Thousand Pound Job': Political Corruption, Equitable Jurisdiction, and the Public Interest in Upper Canada 1852â€?6""; ""4 Nineteenth-Century Canadian Rape Law 1800â€?92""; ""5 Law and Ideology: The Toronto Police Court 1850â€?80""; ""6 The Kamloops Outlaws and Commissions of Assize in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia""

• ""7 Private Rights and Public Purposes in the Lakes, Rivers, and Streams of Ontario 1870â€?1930""""8 'This Nuisance of Litigation': The Origins of Workers' Compensation in Ontario""; ""9 The Evolution of the Ontario Courts 1788â€?1981""; ""Table of Cases""; ""Index""

• Acknowledgements Introduction
• * Conceiving the 1875 Act, 1868-72: The Principles of Copyright * Achieving the 1875 Act, 1872-75: The London Publishers Prevail * Clarifying the 1875 Act, 1876-77: The Stunting of Belford Brothers * Living With the 1875 Act: William Briggs: Printer, Binder, Distributor * The 1900 Amendment, the Agency System, and the Macmillan Company of Canada * The North American Copyright Divide: Black Rock and the Magnification of Ralph Connor Conclusion Notes
• Works Cited
• Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

The 1867 Canadian confederation brought with it expectations of a national literature, which a rising class of local printers hoped to supply. Reforming copyright law in the imperial context proved impossible, and Canada became a prime market for foreign publishers instead. The subsequent development of the agency system of exclusive publisher-importers became a defining feature of Canadian trade publishing for most of the twentieth century. In Dominion and Agency, Eli MacLaren analyses the struggle for copyright reform and the creation of a national literature using previously ignored archival sources such as the Board of Trade Papers at the National Archives of the United Kingdom. A groundbreaking study, Dominion and Agency is an important exploration of the legal and economic structures that were instrumental in the formation of today's Canadian literary culture.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)