Peter Rushton was Professor of Historical Sociology at the University of Sunderland, UK. He published widely on witchcraft, problems of marriage and family life, the poor law and crime in C18th England. He was the joint author of Eighteenth Century Criminal Transportation (Palgrave, 2004).Gwenda Morgan was Reader in American History at the University of Sunderland, UK, and has taught at the Universities of Durham and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. Her work has been on early colonial American law and the criminal law in England.

• Part One: Origins - Theory, Doctrine and Practice 1500-17001. Treason and Rebellion2. The Practice: Treason, Civil Wars, Rebellions and Law in Seventeenth-Century Britain and Ireland Part Two: Development - Rebellion and Treason in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland3. Treason and Rebellion in the Eighteenth Century 4. Treason and the Laws of War in Domestic Revolts5. Rebellion and RetaliationPart Three: Crisis - The American Revolution and the British Atlantic6. Precursors to Rebellion 7. Rebellion and Revolution8. Patriots and Loyalists9. Revolutionary War and the Laws of NationsPart Four: Revolution - Parallels and Contrast in Response to the Revolutionary Years of the 1790s10. The 1790s – The Age of Revolution11. Conclusion – Treason and Rebellion in the Transatlantic WorldBibliographyIndex

Professors Rushton and Morgan have a crafted a valuable and fascinating survey of the laws of treason and sedition as they developed in the multiple jurisdictions of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British empire.