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

by R. W. Kostal (Author)

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  Paperback
  2008

  $70.01

  This book looks at the martial law suppression of the Jamaica uprising of 1865, and the subsequent debate and litigation. It 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.