Imperial incarceration detention without trial in the making of British colonial Africa
For nineteenth-century Britons, the rule of law stood at the heart of their constitutional culture, and guaranteed the right not to be imprisoned without trial. At the same time, in an expanding empire, the authorities made frequent resort to detention without trial to remove political leaders who s...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2021.
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| Colección: | Studies in legal history.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009645329306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Martial Law and the Rule of Law in the Eastern Cape, 1830-1880
- Zulu political prisoners, 1872-1897
- Egypt and Sudan, 1882-1887
- Detention without trial in Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast, 1865-1890
- Removing rulers in the Niger Delta, 1887-1897
- Consolidating colonial rule : detentions in the Gold Coast and Sierra Leone, 1896-1901
- Detention comes to court : African appeals to the courts in Whitehall and Westminster, 1895-1922
- Martial Law in the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902
- Martial Law, the Privy Council and the Zulu Rebellion of 1906
- Conclusion.
