Description |
1 online resource (316 pages). |
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Series |
Critical Perspectives on Empire
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Critical perspectives on empire.
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Contents |
Cover; Scandal of Colonial Rule; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations and maps; Acknowledgments; Cast of characters; Abbreviations; Manuscript collections; Public Record Office, National Archives, London; Contemporary newspapers and journals; Academic journals; Printed and on-line sources; Maps; Introduction; 1: Politics of colonial sensation; In King's Bench; Louisa's cause; Limits; 2: A gentleman's way in the world; Cosmopolitan; An affair of honor; Colonial war; Writing India; Imperial (in)justice; Improvement and reform; State service. |
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3: "Only answerable to God and conscience": justice unbounded by lawPicton's arrival; Frontier society; Personal rule; Modes of violence; An ill-used British subject:; Rights of Englishmen; 4: Ruling narratives; Verified narratives; Domestic (dis- )order; 5: The radical underworld goes colonial; Before Trinidad; Surveillance and subversion; Captivity; The labyrinth of guilty fascination; Race and colonial settlement; A ghostwriter's progress; 6: In search of free labor; "A guiltless, bloodless colony"; "Free" settlers all; Turning East; Conclusion; 7: Conspiracy in the archive; Prelude. |
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The Christmas conspiracyArchival violence; An element of doubt; Poison; Implications; Epilogue: Moving on; End games; Trinidad: subjects and slaves; Index. |
Summary |
A dramatic and innovative history of the British public's confrontation with the iniquities of nineteenth-century colonial rule. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Picton, Thomas, Sir, 1758-1815 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
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Picton, Thomas, Sir, 1758-1815. |
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Trinidad -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad -- History -- 19th century.
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Criminal justice, Administration of. |
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Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Slavery -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad -- History -- 19th century.
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Slavery. |
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Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century.
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Great Britain. |
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Colonies. |
Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Trials, litigation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Epstein, James. Scandal of Colonial Rule : Power and Subversion in the British Atlantic during the Age of Revolution. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2012 9781107003309 |
ISBN |
9781139338394 |
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1139338390 |
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9780511760204 (electronic book) |
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0511760205 (electronic book) |
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9781139336659 (electronic book) |
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1139336657 (electronic book) |
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1139339974 |
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9781139339971 |
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9781107003309 |
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110700330X |
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9780521176774 |
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0521176778 |
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9781139339971 |
Standard No. |
9786613571472 |
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