Imperial incarceration : detention without trial in the making of British colonial Africa / Michael Lobban, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lobban, Michael, author.

Series:

Studies in legal history.

Studies in legal history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political crimes and offenses--Africa, English-speaking--History--19th century.

Political crimes and offenses.

Detention of persons--Africa, English-speaking--History--19th century.

Detention of persons.

Political crimes and offenses--Africa, English-speaking--History--20th century.

Detention of persons--Great Britain--Colonies--History--19th century.

Detention of persons--Africa, English-speaking--History--20th century.

Political crimes and offenses--Great Britain--Colonies--History--19th century.

Law--Africa, English-speaking--English influences--History--20th century.

Law.

Law--Africa, English-speaking--English influences--History--19th century.

Detention of persons--Great Britain--Colonies--History--20th century.

Political crimes and offenses--Great Britain--Colonies--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 450 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For nineteenth-century Britons, the rule of law stood at the heart of their constitutional culture, and guaranteed the right not to be imprisoned without trial. At the same time, in an expanding empire, the authorities made frequent resort to detention without trial to remove political leaders who stood in the way of imperial expansion. Such conduct raised difficult questions about Britain's commitment to the rule of law. Was it satisfied if the sovereign validated acts of naked power by legislative forms, or could imperial subjects claim the protection of Magna Carta and the common law tradition? In this pathbreaking book, Michael Lobban explores how these matters were debated from the liberal Cape, to the jurisdictional borderlands of West Africa, to the occupied territory of Egypt, and shows how and when the demands of power undermined the rule of law. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Contents:

Introduction

Martial Law and the Rule of Law in the Eastern Cape, 1830-1880

Zulu political prisoners, 1872-1897

Egypt and Sudan, 1882-1887

Detention without trial in Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast, 1865-1890

Removing rulers in the Niger Delta, 1887-1897

Consolidating colonial rule : detentions in the Gold Coast and Sierra Leone, 1896-1901

Detention comes to court : African appeals to the courts in Whitehall and Westminster, 1895-1922

Martial Law in the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902

Martial Law, the Privy Council and the Zulu Rebellion of 1906

Conclusion.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Aug 2021).

ISBN:

9781009020497

1009020498

9781009020299

1009020293

9781009004848

1009004840

OCLC:

1260167098