Free Download Peter Rushton, "Treason and Rebellion in the British Atlantic, 1685-1800: Legal Responses to Threatening the State"
English | ISBN: 1350005312 | 2020 | 264 pages | EPUB, PDF | 844 KB + 2 MB
This book examines internal political conflicts in the British Empire within the legal framework of treason and sedition. The threat of treason and rebellion pervaded the British Atlantic in the 17th and 18th centuries; Britain’s control of its territories was continually threatened by rebellion and war, both at home and in North America. Even after American independence, Britain and its former colony continued to be fearful that opposition and revolution might follow the French example, and both took legal measures to control both speech and political action.