A Jurisprudence of Power: Victorian Empire and the Rule of Law

ISBN-13: 9780198260769 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 544 str.

Rande W. Kostal; R. W. Kostal

Opis

A Jurisprudence of Power reconstructs the martial law suppression of the Jamaica uprising of 1865, and the subsequent debate and litigation these events spawned in England. The book addresses questions of legality, and the integrity of political ideals arising from the most important conflict over martial law and the rule of law in the history of England in the nineteenth century.

Recenzje

[An] excellent book...[that] is an important injection of law into both the imperial history and British political history of the late-nineteenth century.

O autorze

R.W. Kostal is a Professor of Law and History at the University of Western Ontario. His research focuses on the history of modern law and society in England and the United States. His first book, Law and English Railway Capitalism 1825-1875, was awarded the Ferguson Prize of the Canadian Historical Association in 1995.