Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
2-2022
Publication Information
41 L. & Hist. Rev. 165 (2022) (book review).
Abstract
The British Empire experienced a profound transformation in the later eighteenth century. From 1688 until the 1760s, Britain governed its colonies by balancing executive power with strong legislatures, restricting the military’s role in everyday policing, and tolerating only a limited divergence between colonial and metropolitan law. That model of empire collapsed during the Age of Revolutions, as Britain moved “from colonial self-government to autocratic rule,” accepted martial law as a routine instrument of colonial peacekeeping, and embraced a “massive legal divergence” between Britain and its colonies—even when it came to basic liberties like freedom from arbitrary arrest.
Recommended Citation
Christian R. Burset,
Book Reviews: Lisa Ford, The King’s Peace: Law and Order in the British Empire,
41 L. & Hist. Rev. 165 (2022) (book review)..
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https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/law_faculty_scholarship/1669
