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Britain and its Internal Others, 1750-1800 - Under Rule of Law (Paperback)
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Britain and its Internal Others, 1750-1800 - Under Rule of Law (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Imperialism
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The rule of law, an ideology of equality and universality that
justified Britain's eighteenth-century imperial claims, was the
product not of abstract principles but imperial contact. As the
Empire expanded, encompassing greater religious, ethnic and racial
diversity, the law paradoxically contained and maintained these
very differences. This book revisits six notorious incidents that
occasioned vigorous debate in London's courtrooms, streets and
presses: the Jewish Naturalization Act and the Elizabeth Canning
case (1753-54); the Somerset Case (1771-72); the Gordon Riots
(1780); the mutinies of 1797; and Union with Ireland (1800). Each
of these cases adjudicated the presence of outsiders in London -
from Jews and Gypsies to Africans and Catholics. The demands of
these internal others to equality before the law drew them into the
legal system, challenging longstanding notions of English identity
and exposing contradictions in the rule of law. -- .
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