In Those Days: Arctic Crime and Punishment

by Kenn Harper

Overview

Kenn Harper shares the tales of murderers, thieves, and fraudsters--as well as the wrongfully accused--in the early days of Northern colonization. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, settler and Inuit ideas of justice clashed, leading to some of the most unusual trials and punishments in history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781772272789
Publisher:	Inhabit Media
Publication date:	04/17/2015
Series:	In Those Days: Collected Writings on Arctic History , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	156
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Kenn Harper is a historian, writer, and linguist, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, and a former member of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. He is the author of the In Those Days series, Minik: The New York Eskimo, and Thou Shalt Do No Murder: Inuit, Injustice, and the Canadian Arctic. “Taissumani,” his column on Arctic history, appears in Nunatsiaq News.