Jurisprudence of Power - Victorian Empire and the Rule of Law

Zusatztext [An] excellent book...[that] is an important injection of law into both the imperial history and British political history of the late-nineteenth century. Informationen zum Autor R.W. Kostal is an Associate Professor of Law and History at the University of Western Ontario. His research focuses on the history of modern law and society in England and the United States. His first book, Law and English Railway Capitalism 1825-1875, was awarded the Ferguson Prize of the Canadian Historical Association in 1995. Klappentext This text reconstructs the martial law suppression of the Jamaica uprising of 1865! and the subsequent debate and litigation these events spawned in England. Zusammenfassung This book looks at the martial law suppression of the Jamaica uprising of 1865, and the subsequent debate and litigation. It addresses questions of legality, and the integrity of political ideals arising from the most important conflict over martial law and the rule of law in the history of England in the nineteenth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: 'The Country of Law': Reconstructing the Morant Bay Uprising in England 2: 'The Blood that Testifies': The Jamaica Controversy in Jamaica 3: The Drawing Room Men: The Jamaica Controversy in 1866 4: The Tenets of Terror: Reinventing the Law of Martial Law 5: Marshalling Martial Law: Litigating the Jamaica Controversy 6: 'The Alphabet of Our Liberty': Chief Justice Cockburn in the Old Bailey 7: 'The Most-Law Loving People in the World': The denouement of the Jamaica litigation Epilogue Epilogue: Phillips v. Eyre and after Conclusion A Jurisprudence of Power: Law, Empire, and the Jamaica Controversy Appendix: The Jamaica Controversy as Historiography Index

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• Authors: R W Kostal, R. W. Kostal, R.W. Kostal, Rande W. Kostal, Rande W. (Associate Professor of Law and H Kostal
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2008
• EAN: 9780199551941
• ISBN: 978-0-19-955194-1
• No. of pages: 560
• Series: Oxford Studies in Modern Legal; Oxford Studies in Modern Legal History; Oxford Studies in Modern Legal History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Asia / General, LAW / Legal History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, LAW / Constitutional, Commonwealth of Nations, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Legal History, Colonialism and imperialism, The Commonwealth, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general