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Kostal R W

A jurisprudence of power : Victorian Empire and the rule of law - Oxford Oxford University Press 2006 - 529p xiii

Contents:
Abbreviations xiii;
Introduction 1;
1. "The Country of Law": Reconstructing the Morant Bay Uprising in England 23;
2. "The Blood that Testifies": The Jamaica Controversy in Jamaica 69;
3. The Drawing Room Men: The Jamaica Controversy in 1866 132;
4. The Tenets of Terror: Reinventing the Law of Martial Law 193;
5. Marshalling Martial Law: Litigating the Jamaica Controversy 258;
6. "The Alphabet of Our Liberty": Chief Justice Cockburn in the Old Bailey 320;
7. "The Most-Law Loving People in the World": The denouement of the Jamaica litigation 370;
Epilogue
Epilogue: Phillips v. Eyre and the Problem of Martial Law 342;
Conclusion: A Jurisprudence of Power:
Victorian Empire, and the Rule of Law 460;
Appendix: The Jamaica Controversy as Historiography 489;
Bibliography 502;
Index 520.



ISBN: 9780198260769

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Rule Of Law - Martial Law - U K - History - 19th Century

Dewey Class. No.: 340.114200 / KOS