Beyond<i>Somerset</i>?: Slavery and the Temporality of Law

Siddique, Asheesh Kapur

doi:10.1017/s073824802200030x

Law hist. rev.

2022

DOI: 10.1017/s073824802200030x

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BeyondSomerset?: Slavery and the Temporality of Law

Asheesh Kapur Siddique

Abstract: This is an invited comment on Holly Brewer's LHR article, “Creating a Common Law of Slavery for England and its New World Empire.”

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The Scottish Enlightenment and the Remaking of Modern History

Pye

2023

Hist. J.

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This article offers a new interpretation of the history-writing produced in Enlightenment Scotland. It argues that after the Jacobite rebellion of 1745 was blamed on Scotland's ‘feudal’ institutions, Scottish jurists and historians began to interrogate what it meant to become 'modern'. Instead of accepting the Whig claim that England provided the ideal model for social and political development, they subsumed English history into a broader debate about whether and how modern Europe had emerged from its feudal past. By reconstructing this debate, the article shows how Scots rewrote European history in ways that subverted the English whig tradition while rejecting universal or ‘cosmopolitan’ explanations of social progress. In doing so, the article reopens the question of how the Scottish Enlightenment shaped British imperial culture across the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

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The Scottish Enlightenment and the Remaking of Modern History

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2023

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BeyondSomerset?: Slavery and the Temporality of Law

Abstract: This is an invited comment on Holly Brewer's LHR article, “Creating a Common Law of Slavery for England and its New World Empire.”

Cited by 1 publication

References 7 publications

The Scottish Enlightenment and the Remaking of Modern History

The Scottish Enlightenment and the Remaking of Modern History

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