1st Edition
Historiography, Empire and the Rule of Law Imagined Constitutions, Remembered Legalities
Chapter 1. The Themes Introduced: Law, The Subject, Sovereignty and Certainty; Chapter 2.Making Good the Lack: The Form of the Phantom in the Progress from Sovereignty to Civility; Chapter 3. The Scottish Writing of the Civility of the ‘Englishman’; Chapter 4. The Government of Empire and its Implications for the ‘Metropolis’; Chapter 5. Governing The ‘Natives’ At Home In Nineteenth Century Britain; Chapter 6. Culture Studies, Education and Legality; Chapter 7. The ‘Problem’ of the English Discipline and the Rise and Possible Fall of Legal Positivism; Conclusion.
Biography
Ian Duncanson
"This work deserves the attention of all scholars interested in those themes. Duncanson reminds his readers of the intellectual construction, artificiality, and fragility of legal culture in our current age of information, austerity, shock, awe, and terror." - Richard Connors, University of Ottawa
