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Book Review
Canada and the United States
| Jerry Bannister. The Rule of the Admirals: Law, Custom, and Naval Government in Newfoundland, 1699–1832. (Publications of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.) Toronto: University of Toronto Press; for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. 2003. Pp. xix, 423. Cloth $65.00, paper $34.95.
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| Jerry Bannister's book received the Canadian Historical Association's Sir John A. Macdonald award in 2003. That a book examining naval government in eighteenth-century Newfoundland should receive this honor is an indication of its quality and of its impact both on Newfoundland historiography and on legal history within the British Empire. |
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