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Scandal of Colonial Rule - Power and Subversion in the British Atlantic during the Age of Revolution (Hardcover, New)
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Scandal of Colonial Rule - Power and Subversion in the British Atlantic during the Age of Revolution (Hardcover, New)
Series: Critical Perspectives on Empire
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In 1806 General Thomas Picton, Britain's first governor of
Trinidad, was brought to trial for the torture of a free mulatto
named Louisa Calderon and for overseeing a regime of terror over
the island's slave population. James Epstein offers a fascinating
account of the unfolding of this colonial drama. He shows the ways
in which the trial and its investigation brought empire 'home' and
exposed the disjuncture between a national self-image of humane
governance and the brutal realities of colonial rule. He uses the
trial to open up a range of issues, including colonial violence and
norms of justice, the status of the British subject, imperial
careering, visions of development after slavery, slave conspiracy
and the colonial archive. He reveals how Britain's imperial regime
became more authoritarian, hierarchical and militarised but also
how unease about abuses of power and of the rights of colonial
subjects began to grow.
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