A Jurisprudence of Power: Victorian Empire and the Rule of Law (Oxford Studies in Modern Legal History)

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A Jurisprudence of Power concerns the brutal suppression underneath 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 upward thrust to great questions of English law.

It documents how the sector’s so much 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 with out corrupting the integrity of its legal and political ideals?

The book addresses these questions because it reconstructs probably the most prolonged and necessary conflict over martial law and the guideline of law within the history of England within the nineteenth century.

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