States of emergency : colonialism, literature and law /

How can literature and culture from the postcolonial world help us understand the relationship between law and violence in emergencies? This book examines how violent anti-colonial struggles and the legal, military and political techniques employed by colonial governments to contain them have been i...

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Main Author: Morton, Stephen, 1972- (Author)
Corporate Author: UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Pres, 2013
Series:Postcolonialism across the disciplines ; 11.
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