Press UWI biography series Law, justice, and empire : the colonial career of John Gorrie, 1829-1892
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Book
Authors
ISBN 10
9766400350
ISBN 13
9789766400354
DDC
325.309
Category
United Kingdom
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Publication Year
1997
Publisher
Volume
2
Pages
xx, 371 pages
Subject
John Gorrie
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Abstract
"The Colonial Career of John Gorrie" is a biographical study of Sir John Gorrie, a Scottish Lawyer, who served as a judge and as chief justice in several multi-racial British colonies (Mauritius, Fiji, the leeward Islands, Trinidad and Tobago) in the second half of the nineteenth century. Holding radical political and social views, especially a conviction that persons of all ethnic and class backgrounds should enjoy equal justice under the British crown, he was a controversial jurist won inspired both bitter opposition from colonial elites ad intense admiration from the "subject race" in each place he served..." - Back cover
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Contents:
The young Scot on the make: from Kettle to London, 1829-69 -- The Jamaica case, 1865-68 -- Planters and immigrants: Mauritius, 1869-76 -- The frontier colony: Fiji, 1876-82 -- Outrages and reprisals: the Western Pacific High Commission, 1878-82 -- From the Pacific to the Caribbean: the Leeward Islands, 1883-86 -- 'Ah we judge': Trinidad, 1886-89 -- 'The cane the judge will grind it': Tobago, 1889-92 -- The storm bursts: Trinidad, 1889-92.
The young Scot on the make: from Kettle to London, 1829-69 -- The Jamaica case, 1865-68 -- Planters and immigrants: Mauritius, 1869-76 -- The frontier colony: Fiji, 1876-82 -- Outrages and reprisals: the Western Pacific High Commission, 1878-82 -- From the Pacific to the Caribbean: the Leeward Islands, 1883-86 -- 'Ah we judge': Trinidad, 1886-89 -- 'The cane the judge will grind it': Tobago, 1889-92 -- The storm bursts: Trinidad, 1889-92.
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