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Crime & Punishment is global in its outlook on Canadian history. Today distant events in Colombia, Russia, China, or the Middle-East, have direct impact on the nature of policing in Canadian cities. In the 19th century, similar distant events like the Potato Famine in Ireland, the Paris Commune Uprising, the Opium Wars and Boxer Rebellion in China, the US Civil War, effected policing in Canadian urban centers. These upheavals in the age of sail and steam, dramatically resonate in the surviving minutes of local municipal police commission meetings, courtroom judgments and routine police department memos from across 19th century Canada.
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