(Source: Bloomsbury)
Bloomsbury is publishing a new
book on treason and rebellion in the British Atlantic.
ABOUT THE BOOK
This book examines internal
political conflicts in the British Empire within the legal framework of treason
and sedition. The threat of treason and rebellion pervaded the British Atlantic
in the 17th and 18th centuries; Britain's control of its territories was
continually threatened by rebellion and war, both at home and in North America.
Even after American independence, Britain and its former colony continued to be
fearful that opposition and revolution might follow the French example, and
both took legal measures to control both speech and political action.
This study places these conflicts
within a political and legal framework of the laws of treason and sedition as
they developed in the British Atlantic. The treason laws originated in the
reign of Edward III, and were adapted and modified in the 16th and 17th
centuries. They were exported to the colonies, where they underwent both
adaptation and elaboration in application in the slave societies as well as
those dominated by free settlers. Relationships with natives and European
rivals in the Americas affected the definitions of treason in practice, and the
divided loyalties of the American revolutionary war added further problems of
defining loyalty and treachery.
Treason and Rebellion in the
British Atlantic, 1685-1800 offers a new study of treason and sedition in the
period by placing them in a truly transatlantic perspective, making it a
valuable study for those interested in the legal and political of Britain's
empire and 18th-century revolutions.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Peter Rushton is Professor of
Historical Sociology at the University of Sunderland, UK. He has published
widely on witchcraft, problems of marriage and family life, the poor law and
crime in C18th England. He is the joint author of Eighteenth Century
Criminal Transportation (Palgrave, 2004).
Dr Gwenda Morgan is Honorary
Research Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Durham,
UK. She has published widely on law and society in early America.
Her latest book is The Debate on the Modern American Revolution: Issues in
Historiography (MUP 2007).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part One: Origins - Theory,
Doctrine and Practice 1500-1700
1. Treason and Rebellion
2. The Practice: Treason, Civil
Wars, Rebellions and Law in Seventeenth-Century Britain and Ireland
Part Two: Development - Rebellion
and Treason in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland
3. Treason and Rebellion in the
Eighteenth Century
4. Treason and the Laws of War in
Domestic Revolts
5. Rebellion and Retaliation
Part Three: Crisis - The American
Revolution and the British Atlantic
6. Precursors to Rebellion
7. Rebellion and Revolution
8. Patriots and Loyalists
9. Revolutionary War and the Laws
of Nations
Part Four: Revolution - Parallels
and Contrast in Response to the Revolutionary Years of the 1790s
10. The 1790s – The Age of
Revolution
11. Conclusion – Treason and
Rebellion in the Transatlantic World
Bibliography
Index
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