A Jurisprudence of power : Victorian Empire and the rule of law / R.W. Kostal.

Oxford, England ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

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Rule of law -- Great Britain -- History.

Martial law -- Jamaica -- History -- 19th century.

Introduction

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': Lord Chief Justice Cockburn in the Old Bailey

7. 'The most law-loving people in the world': the denouement of the Jamaica litigation

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.

Includes bibliography and index.

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