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July 31, 2018

“[N]otable not only for the way it navigates questions of identity & politics, but for the variety & virtuosity of its use of form.”

-Robert Archambeau, The Hudson Review

The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History

By Allen Boyer and Mark Nicholls
Routledge
340 pages
$180

The book “explores the reasons why treason coalesced around specific offences agreed by both the monarch and the wider political nation, why it became an essential instrument of enforcement in high politics, and why, over the past three hundred years, it has gradually fallen into disuse while remaining on the statute book.”

~the publisher

semiautomatic