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Author Epstein, James.

Title Scandal of Colonial Rule : Power and Subversion in the British Atlantic during the Age of Revolution.

Publication Info. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (316 pages).
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Series Critical Perspectives on Empire
Critical perspectives on empire.
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.
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.
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.
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Subject Picton, Thomas, Sir, 1758-1815 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Picton, Thomas, Sir, 1758-1815.
Trinidad -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad -- History -- 19th century.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Slavery -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad -- History -- 19th century.
Slavery.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century.
Great Britain.
Colonies.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic book.
Electronic books.
History.
Trials, litigation, etc.
Electronic books.
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
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