Reluctant Abolitionists
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Reluctant Abolitionists
Britain and the End of the Colonial Death Penalty
Campbell, James M.
Cambridge University Press
03/2026
370
Mole
Inglês
9781009595216
15 a 20 dias
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Tables; Maps; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations of archival sources; Introduction; 1. 'A vast and extended web': the colonial death penalty before and after British abolition; 2. Decolonisation and the royal prerogative of mercy; 3. 'To hang or not to hang?' Clemency and de facto abolition in Hong Kong; 4. The enduring colonial death penalty; 5. 'Cut the noose loose': protest and policy in the late-1970s; 6. 'This dog is not sleeping': Britain, the dependent territories and the death penalty in the 1980s; 7. The last rites of Imperial executions; Epilogue; Appendix: governors of select British overseas territories; Bibliography; Index.
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Tables; Maps; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations of archival sources; Introduction; 1. 'A vast and extended web': the colonial death penalty before and after British abolition; 2. Decolonisation and the royal prerogative of mercy; 3. 'To hang or not to hang?' Clemency and de facto abolition in Hong Kong; 4. The enduring colonial death penalty; 5. 'Cut the noose loose': protest and policy in the late-1970s; 6. 'This dog is not sleeping': Britain, the dependent territories and the death penalty in the 1980s; 7. The last rites of Imperial executions; Epilogue; Appendix: governors of select British overseas territories; Bibliography; Index.
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