Imperial incarceration : detention without trial in the making of British colonial Africa

• Tác giả: Michael Lobban
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN: 9781009004848 (ebook)
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 345.960231 Criminal law
• Thông tin xuất bản: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (xii, 450 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 313159
• Chủ đề: 1. Detention of persons--History--19th century--Africa, English-speaking; 2. Detention of persons--History--20th century--Africa, English-speaking; 3. Detention of persons--Colonies--19th century--Great Britain; 4. Detention of persons--Colonies--20th century--Great Britain; 5. Law--English influences--19th century--Africa, English-speaking; 6. Law--English influences--20th century--Africa, English-speaking; 7. Political crimes and offenses--History--19th century--Africa, English-speaking; 8. Political crimes and offenses--History--20th century--Africa, English-speaking; 9. Political crimes and offenses--Colonies--19th century--Great Britain; 10. Political crimes and offenses--Colonies--20th century--Great Britain

Tóm tắt

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 stood in the way of imperial expansion. Such conduct raised difficult questions about Britain's commitment to the rule of law. Was it satisfied if the sovereign validated acts of naked power by legislative forms, or could imperial subjects claim the protection of Magna Carta and the common law tradition? In this pathbreaking book, Michael Lobban explores how these matters were debated from the liberal Cape, to the jurisdictional borderlands of West Africa, to the occupied territory of Egypt, and shows how and when the demands of power undermined the rule of law. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.