02196nam a22003378a 4500 CR9780511760204 UkCbUP 20180107143412.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 100505s2012||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9780511760204 (ebook) 9781107003309 (hardback) 9780521176774 (paperback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda HN246.A8 E67 2012 306.20972983/09033 23 Epstein, James, author. Scandal of Colonial Rule : Power and Subversion in the British Atlantic during the Age of Revolution / [electronic resource] James Epstein. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012. 1 online resource (314 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Critical Perspectives on Empire Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). 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 governance and the brutal realities of colonial rule. He uses the trial to open up a range of issues, including colonial violence and norms of justice, the status of the British subject, imperial careering, visions of development after slavery, slave conspiracy and the colonial archive. He reveals how Britain's imperial regime became more authoritarian, hierarchical and militarised but also how unease about abuses of power and of the rights of colonial subjects began to grow. Print version: 9781107003309 Critical Perspectives on Empire. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511760204 Cambridge Books Online 236469 236469