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A jurisprudence of power : Victorian Empire and the rule of law
Publication details: Oxford Oxford University Press 2008Description: 529p xvISBN:- 9780199551941
- 340.114200 KOS
Contents:
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.
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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.