{"id":630,"date":"2014-01-30T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/?p=630"},"modified":"2014-07-31T16:48:26","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T15:48:26","slug":"scandal-of-colonial-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/2014\/01\/30\/scandal-of-colonial-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Scandal of Colonial Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Christer Petley, editor of the Slavery and Revolution website, reviews<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"Scandal of Colonial Rule\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/mx\/academic\/subjects\/history\/british-history-after-1450\/scandal-colonial-rule-power-and-subversion-british-atlantic-during-age-revolution\" target=\"_blank\"><em><span style=\"color: #1b8be0\">The Scandal of Colonial Rule,<\/span><\/em><span class=\"apple-converted-space\"><span style=\"color: #1b8be0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/a>a book by<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"James Epstein\" href=\"http:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/history\/bio\/james-epstein\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #1b8be0\">Professor James Epstein of Vanderbilt University<\/span><\/a><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>about the Caribbean, slavery and the British empire. It is an imaginative and innovative new take on these subjects. Important and unique not just because of its focus on Trinidad (often overlooked in favour of Jamaica or Barbados), Epstein&#8217;s book shines new light on the place of Caribbean slavery within wider debates about the transformation of the British empire in the Age of Revolution. It is &#8216;an imaginative and engrossing study, a model of painstaking scholarship, which is marked by its compelling arguments and incisive writing.&#8217;<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"Review\" href=\"http:\/\/ehr.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/early\/2014\/01\/14\/ehr.cet336.full?keytype=ref&amp;ijkey=hPWbZz5L34MyS4l\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #1b8be0\">Click here<\/span><\/a><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>for the full review.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Christer Petley, editor of the Slavery and Revolution website, reviews\u00a0The Scandal of Colonial Rule,\u00a0a book by\u00a0Professor James Epstein of Vanderbilt University\u00a0about the Caribbean, slavery and the British empire. It is an imaginative and innovative new take on these subjects. Important and unique not just because of its focus on Trinidad (often overlooked in favour [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22393],"tags":[793322,628626,16101,220883],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-posts","tag-caribbean","tag-empire","tag-history","tag-slavery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":631,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions\/631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/slaveryandrevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}