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100 1 _aKostal, R. W.
245 1 2 _aA jurisprudence of power :
_bVictorian Empire and the rule of law /
_cR.W. Kostal
260 _aNew York :
_bOxford University Press,
_c2005.
300 _ax, 529 p. ;
_c24 cm.
365 _bRs. 1736.00
440 0 _aOxford studies in modern legal history
505 _aIntroduction- 1. "The Country of Law": Reconstructing the Morant Bay Uprising in England- 2. "The Blood that Testifies": The Jamaica Controversy in Jamaica- 3. The Drawing Room Men: The Jamaica Controversy in 1866- 4. The Tenets of Terror: Reinventing the Law of Martial Law- 5. Marshalling Martial Law: Litigating the Jamaica Controversy- 6. "The Alphabet of Our Liberty": Chief Justice Cockburn in the Old Bailey- 7. "The Most-Law Loving People in the World": The denouement of the Jamaica litigation Epilogue- Epilogue: Phillips v. Eyre and the Problem of Martial Law- Conclusion: A Jurisprudence of Power- Victorian Empire, and the Rule of Law- Appendix: The Jamaica Controversy as Historiography- Index.
650 0 _aRule of law
_zGreat Britain
_xHistory.
650 0 _aMartial law
_zJamaica
_xHistory
_y19th century.
856 4 1 _3Table of contents
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0517/2005023087.html
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