Peter Rushton was Professor of Historical Sociology at the University of Sunderland, UK. He published widely on witchcraft, problems of marriage and family life, the poor law and crime in C18th England. He was the joint author of Eighteenth Century Criminal Transportation (Palgrave, 2004).

Part One: Origins - Theory, Doctrine and Practice 1500-1700
1. Treason and Rebellion
2. The Practice: Treason, Civil Wars, Rebellions and Law in Seventeenth-Century Britain and Ireland
Part Two: Development - Rebellion and Treason in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland
3. Treason and Rebellion in the Eighteenth Century
4. Treason and the Laws of War in Domestic Revolts
5. Rebellion and Retaliation
Part Three: Crisis - The American Revolution and the British Atlantic
6. Precursors to Rebellion
7. Rebellion and Revolution
8. Patriots and Loyalists
9. Revolutionary War and the Laws of Nations
Part Four: Revolution - Parallels and Contrast in Response to the Revolutionary Years of the 1790s
10. The 1790s - The Age of Revolution
11. Conclusion - Treason and Rebellion in the Transatlantic World
Bibliography
Index