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True Government By Choice Men?: Inspection, Education, and State Formation in Canada West, Bruce Curtis, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992, ix + 250 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2014

Alan Hunt
Affiliation:
Departments of Law, Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Carleton University

Abstract

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Copyright © Canadian Law and Society Association 1994

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