Penalties of Empire

Penalties of EmpireWe must have a procedure if we are going to hang anyone that is just, said Chief Justice Sir Francis Piggott in 1909, on discovering that Chinese accused of murder were being denied interpretation in Hong Kongs courts. Due process, no matter how costly or inconvenient, was one of the penalties of empire, he declared. Penalties of Empire explores how judges, juries, and lawyers strove to deliver justice during the 150 years when the death penalty was

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Only when tactics of control are seen as intentional intimate terrorism can these systems construct responses effectively to end the violence

interpretive approach to inquiry

The phytomicrobiome also helps plants resist biotic stress by competing against other microbes for niche space and nutrients

This book presents an analysis of the poet Robinson Jeffers in view of his contributions to recent debates about the status of “the human” and the development of an inhumanist philosophy

This volume is about how to facilitate change

Turning the conventional Break-Up of Britain narrative inside-out

and whether its action in the social realm should be intensified

investigates the social dynamics behind changes in urban and rural life in the Byzantine period that can be detected by archaeology

the author shows how the present conflicts over land in the Amazon

and the broader physical culture

it provides a lucid and far-reaching analysis of a cultural genocide