A Jurisprudence of Power

R.W. Kostal is an Associate Professor of Law and History at the University of Western Ontario. His research focuses on the history of modern law and society in England and the United States. His first book, Law and English Railway Capitalism 1825-1875, was awarded the Ferguson Prize of the Canadian Historical Association in 1995.

• INTRODUCTION ; 1. 'The Country of Law': Reconstructing the Morant Bay Uprising in England ; 2. 'The Blood that Testifies': The Jamaica Controversy in Jamaica ; 3. The Drawing Room Men: The Jamaica Controversy in 1866 ; 4. The Tenets of Terror: Reinventing the Law of Martial Law ; 5. Marshalling Martial Law: Litigating the Jamaica Controversy ; 6. 'The Alphabet of Our Liberty': Chief Justice Cockburn in the Old Bailey ; 7. 'The Most-Law Loving People in the World': The denouement of the Jamaica litigation ; EPILOGUE ; Epilogue: Phillips v. Eyre and after ; CONCLUSION ; A Jurisprudence of Power: Law, Empire, and the Jamaica Controversy ; APPENDIX: THE JAMAICA CONTROVERSY AS HISTORIOGRAPHY ; INDEX

Review from previous edition ..Rande Kostal's justification for entering this well-ploughed historical field is to move the law to the centre of the stage...This he does superbly by painstaking research and analysis, displaying mastery of archival sources and the written word. Indeed, Kostal succeeds so well that at times one starts to believe that the law is not just centre stage but the entire stage...a distinguished contribution..A Jurisprudence of Power deserves a wide readership