Riel's Defence
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Riel's Defence

Perspectives on His Speeches

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eBook - ePub

Riel's Defence

Perspectives on His Speeches

About this book

A multi-disciplinary study of two of the most poignant speeches in Canadian history.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction
  7. Preface to the Texts of Louis Riel’s Addresses to the Jury and the Court
  8. Louis Riel’s Address to the Jury, 31 July 1885
  9. Louis Riel’s Address to the Court, 1 August 1885
  10. 1 The Queen vs Louis Riel: The Historical Context
  11. 2 “Through the Grace of God I Am the Founder of Manitoba”: Louis Riel’s Constitutional Thought
  12. 3 Louis Riel’s Trial Speeches
  13. 4 The Use and Force of Rhetorical Strategies in Louis Riel’s First Speech
  14. 5 Narrative and Logical Orders in Louis Riel’s Address to the Jury
  15. 6 “A New German-Indian World” in the North-West: A MĂ©tis Deconstruction of the Rhetoric of Immigration in Louis Riel’s Trial Speeches
  16. 7 Reconstructing the Substantive Argument in Louis Riel’s Address to the Jury
  17. 8 “An Insane and Irresponsible Government”: Louis Riel and the Representation of Responsibility
  18. 9 “Who Starts the Nations?” Louis Riel and the Question of Geopolitical Legitimacy
  19. 10 Louis Riel’s Ethos and the DiffĂ©rend
  20. 11 The Case of Two Trials, Louis Riel and Socrates: Intersections, Overlaps, Divergences
  21. Contributors
  22. Index