Britain and its Internal Others, 1750-1800

Introduction: Empire and law, 'Firmly united by the circle of the British diadem'
1 Internal others: Jews, Gypsies, and Jacobites
2 'In a country of liberty?':Sslavery, villeinage and the making of whiteness in the Somerset case (1772)
3 Imperial disruptions: City, nation, and empire in the Gordon Riots
4 'This fleet is not yet republican': Conceptions of law in the mutinies of 1797
5 Wedding and Bedding: making the Union with Ireland, 1800
Conclusion
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• História inglesa e irlandesa
• Sistemas legais
• Direito e sociedade
• Historia do direito
• História social e cultural
• História moderna para o século 20: c1700 a c 1900

Act of Union; African presence; Britain's Empire; British law; eighteenth-century imperialism; Elizabeth Canning case; equality; Gordon Riots; imperial policies; Ireland; Jewish Naturalization Act; labor Conditions; mutinies of 1797; Somerset Case; universality