Imperial incarceration : detention without trial in the making of British colonial Africa /

For nineteenth-century Britons, the rule of law stood at the heart of their constitutional culture, and guaranteed the right not to be imprisoned without trial. At the same time, in an expanding empire, the authorities made frequent resort to detention without trial to remove political leaders who s...

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Auteur principal: Lobban, Michael (Auteur)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Langue:anglais
Publié: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Collection:Studies in legal history.
Accès en ligne:https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009004848