Böcker av Ian Radforth

A fascinating journey into life and law in late nineteenth-century Canada, Deadly Swindle tells the story of one the country's most sensational murder cases.

August 1, 1875, Toronto: The naked body of a young woman is discovered in a pine box, half-buried in a ditch along Bloor Street. So begins Jeannie's Demise, a real-life Victorian melodrama that played out in the bustling streets and courtrooms of "Toronto the Good," cast with all the lurid stock characters of the genre.

Radforth has drawn on an impressive array of sources, including interviews and forestry student reports as well as a vast body of published sources to shed new light on trade union organization and on the role of ethnic groups in the woods work force.

An original and erudite study, Royal Spectacle contributes greatly to historical research on public spectacle, colonial and national identities, Britishness in the Atlantic world, and the history of the monarchy.