"The country of law" : reconstructing the Morant Bay uprising in England -- "The blood that testifies" : the Jamaica controversy in Jamaica -- The drawing-room men : the Jamaica controversy in 1866 -- The tenets of terror : reinventing the law of martial law -- Marshalling martial law : litigating the Jamaica controversy -- "The alphabet of our liberty" : Lord Chief Justice Cockburn in the Old Bailey -- "The most law-loving people in the world" : the denouement of the Jamaica litigation -- Phillips v. Eyre and the problem of martial law -- A jurisprudence of power : Victorian Empire and the rule of law.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Rule of law -- Great Britain -- History.
Martial law -- Jamaica -- History -- 19th century.