01893cam a2200241 a 4500008004100000020001800041020001800059040000800077050002500085100002000110245012400130260006400254300001900318490003600337505001700373520094100390600006301331650007401394650004601468650003801514651004701552651005201599110810s2012    enka     b    001 0 eng    a9781107003309  a9780521176774  aSDU00aHN246.A8bE64 S 20121 aEpstein, James.10aScandal of colonial rule :bpower and subversion in the British Atlantic during the age of revolution /cJames Epstein.  aCambridge ;aNew York :bCambridge University Press,c2012.  a289 p. :bill.1 aCritical perspectives on empire  aHKBU Library  a"In 1806 General Thomas Picton, Britain's first governor of Trinidad, was brought to trial for the torture of a free mulatto named Louisa Calderon and for overseeing a regime of terror over the island's slave population. James Epstein offers a fascinating account of the unfolding of this colonial drama. He shows the ways in which the trial and its investigation brought empire 'home' and exposed the disjuncture between a national self-image of humane governance and the brutal realities of colonial rule. He uses the trial to open up a range of issues, including colonial violence and norms of justice, the status of the British subject, imperial careering, visions of development after slavery, slave conspiracy and the colonial archive. He reveals how Britain's imperial regime became more authoritarian, hierarchical and militarised but also how unease about abuses of power and of the rights of colonial subjects began to grow"--10aPicton, Thomas,cSir,d1758-1815xTrials, litigation, etc. 0aCriminal justice, Administration ofzTrinidadxHistoryy19th century. 0aSlaveryzTrinidadxHistoryy19th century. 7aHISTORY / Europe / Great Britain. 0aTrinidadxSocial conditionsy19th century. 0aGreat BritainxColoniesxHistoryy19th century.