| A Jurisprudence of Power: Victorian Empire and the Rule of Law Contributor(s): Kostal, Rande W. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0199551944 ISBN-13: 9780199551941 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $63.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2008 Annotation: A Jurisprudence of Power concerns the brutal suppression under martial law of the Jamaica uprising of 1865, and the explosive debate and litigation these events spawned in England. The book explores the centrality of legal ideas and institutions in English politics, and of political ideas that give rise to great questions of English law. It documents how the world's most powerful and articulate political elite struggled to define its soul, and poses penetrating questions such as can an imperial nation remain committed to laws and legality? Can it contend with the violent resistance of subjugated peoples without corrupting the integrity of its legal and political ideals? The book addresses these questions as it reconstructs the most prolonged and important conflict over martial law and the rule of law in the history of England in the nineteenth century. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Caribbean & West Indies - General - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - History | World - General |
| Dewey: 972.920 |
| Series: Oxford Studies in Modern Legal History |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.2" W x 9.2" (1.85 lbs) 560 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A Jurisprudence of Power concerns the brutal suppression under martial law of the Jamaica uprising of 1865, and the explosive debate and litigation these events spawned in England. The book explores the centrality of legal ideas and institutions in English politics, and of political ideas that give rise to great questions of English law. It documents how the world's most powerful and articulate political elite struggled to define its soul, and poses penetrating questions such as can an imperial nation remain committed to laws and legality? Can it contend with the violent resistance of subjugated peoples without corrupting the integrity of its legal and political ideals? The book addresses these questions as it reconstructs the most prolonged and important conflict over martial law and the rule of law in the history of England in the nineteenth century. |