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A jurisprudence of power : Victorian empire and the rule of law / Rande W. Kostal.
LIBRA KD3995 .K67 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kostal, R. W. (Rande W.)
- Series:
- Oxford studies in modern legal history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rule of law.
- Martial law--Jamaica--History--19th century.
- Martial law.
- Constitutional law--Great Britain--Colonies.
- Constitutional law.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Colonies.
- Civil supremacy over the military--Great Britain--Colonies.
- Civil supremacy over the military.
- British colonies.
- Constitutional law--British colonies.
- Management.
- Great Britain--Colonies--Administration--History--19th century.
- Administration.
- Jamaica.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 529 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Summary:
- This text reconstructs the martial law suppression of the Jamaica uprising of 1865, and the subsequent debate and litigation these events spawned in England.
- Contents:
- "The country of law" : reconstructing the Morant Bay uprising in England
- "The blood that testifies" : the Jamaica controversy in Jamaica
- The drawing-room men : the Jamaica controversy in 1866
- The tenets of terror : reinventing the law of martial law
- Marshalling martial law : litigating the Jamaica controversy
- "The alphabet of our liberty" : Lord Chief Justice Cockburn in the Old Bailey
- "The most law-loving people in the world" : the denouement of the Jamaica litigation
- Phillips v. Eyre and the problem of martial law
- A jurisprudence of power : Victorian Empire and the rule of law
- Appendix: The Jamaica controversy as historiography.
- Notes:
- Originally published: 2005.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199551941
- 0199551944
- OCLC:
- 234297228
- Publisher Number:
- 99981108621
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