Scandal of Colonial Rule: Power and Subversion in the British Atlantic During the Age of Revolution

by James Epstein

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521176778
• ISBN13: 9780521176774
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"