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

By: Epstein, JamesMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Critical Perspectives on EmpirePublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (316 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781139339971Subject(s): Criminal justice, Administration of -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad -- History -- 19th century | Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century | Picton, Thomas, -- Sir, -- 1758-1815 -- Trials, litigation, etc | Slavery -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad -- History -- 19th century | Trinidad -- Social conditions -- 19th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Scandal of Colonial Rule : Power and Subversion in the British Atlantic during the Age of RevolutionDDC classification: 306.2097298309033 LOC classification: HN246.A8 E67 2012Online resources: Click to View
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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 law -- Picton'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 conspiracy -- Archival 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.
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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 law -- Picton'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 conspiracy -- Archival violence -- An element of doubt -- Poison -- Implications -- Epilogue: Moving on -- End games -- Trinidad: subjects and slaves -- Index.

A dramatic and innovative history of the British public's confrontation with the iniquities of nineteenth-century colonial rule.

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