Jurisprudence of Power: Victorian Empire and the Rule of Law

This text reconstructs the martial law suppression of the Jamaica uprising of 1865, and the subsequent debate and litigation these events spawned in England.

Author: R. W. Kostal
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 12/15/2008
Pages: 560
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.85lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780199551941

About the Author
R.W. Kostal is an Associate 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.

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