Historiography, empire, and the rule of law : imagined constitutions, remembered legalities /
Duncanson, Ian.
Abingdon : Routledge,
2012.
"A GlassHouse book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-249) and index.
The themes introduced : law, the subject, sovereignty, and certainty -- Making good the lack : the form of the phantom in the progress from sovereignty to civility -- The Scottish writing of the civility of the Englishman -- The government of empire and its implications for the metropolis -- Governing the natives at home in nineteenth century Britain -- Cultural studies, education, and legality -- The problem of the English discipline and the rise and possible fall of legal positivism.
Rule of law.
Legal positivism.
Historiography.