Scandal of Colonial Rule - Power Subversion in British Atlantic During Age of Revolution

Informationen zum Autor James Epstein is Distinguished Professor of History, Department of History, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. His previous publications include In Practice: Studies in the Language and Culture of Popular Politics in Modern Britain (2003) and Radical Expression: Political Language, Ritual, and Symbol in England, 1790-1850 (1994). Klappentext A dramatic and innovative history of the British public's confrontation with the iniquities of nineteenth-century colonial rule. Zusammenfassung A dramatic history of the British public's confrontation with the iniquities of nineteenth-century colonial rule. James Epstein uses the trial of the first governor of Trinidad for the torture of a freewoman of color to reassess the nature of British colonialism and the ways in which empire troubled the metropolitan imagination. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Politics of colonial sensation; 2. A gentleman's way in the world; 3. 'Only answerable to God and conscience': justice unbounded by law; 4. Ruling narratives; 5. The radical underworld goes colonial; 6. In search of free labor; 7. Conspiracy in the archive; Epilogue: moving on.

Product details

• Authors: James Epstein, James (Vanderbilt University Epstein, Epstein James
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.03.2012
• EAN: 9781107003309
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00330-9
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Critical Perspectives on Empir; Critical Perspectives on Empire; Critical Perspectives on Empir
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Europäische Geschichte, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Archaeology / Anthropology, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social