Martial Law and English Laws, c.1500–c.1700
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1107469481
ISBN-13
9781107469488
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 26th, 2020
Print length
333 Pages
Weight
490 grams
Dimensions
15.10 x 23.00 x 2.20 cms
Product Classification:
Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700
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John M. Collins presents the first comprehensive history of martial law in the early modern period. Rather than being a state of exception from law, martial law was understood and practiced as one of the King's laws, and was a vital component of England's domestic and imperial legal order.
John M. Collins presents the first comprehensive history of martial law in the early modern period. He argues that rather than being a state of exception from law, martial law was understood and practiced as one of the King''s laws. Further, it was a vital component of both England''s domestic and imperial legal order. It was used to quell rebellions during the Reformation, to subdue Ireland, to regulate English plantations like Jamestown, to punish spies and traitors in the English Civil War, and to build forts on Jamaica. Through outlining the history of martial law, Collins reinterprets English legal culture as dynamic, politicized, and creative, where jurists were inspired by past practices to generate new law rather than being restrained by it. This work asks that legal history once again be re-integrated into the cultural and political histories of early modern England and its empire.
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