Historiography, empire, and the rule of law
Subtitle: imagined constitutions, remembered legalities
By: Ian Duncanson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon [UK]; New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Historiography; Legal positivism; Rule of law
Table of contents: title: The themes introduced : law, the subject, sovereignty, and certainty; title: Making good the lack : the form of the phantom in the progress from sovereignty to civility; title: The Scottish writing of the civility of the Englishman; title: The government of empire and its implications for the metropolis; title: Governing the natives at home in nineteenth century Britain; title: Cultural studies, education, and legality; title: The problem of the English discipline and the rise and possible fall of legal positivism.