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A jurisprudence of power : Victorian Empire and the rule of law /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kostal, R. W. (Rande W.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Series:Oxford studies in modern legal history.
Subjects:
Rule of law > Great Britain > History.
Martial law > Jamaica > History > 19th century.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of 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.