HON 200 Honors Colloquium Searching for Answers: Medieval Torture to Today’s Investigation Techniques: eBooks

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In the current politically charged era, the word “treason” frequently surfaces in vitriolic discourse. However, how many cases of actual treason have there been, who were the perpetrators, and what were their consequences?

This two-volume eBook set (available in print on Course Reserves) offers in-depth analysis of eighty documents (including correspondences, court transcripts and testimonies, edicts, interviews, legislation, letters, manifestos, pamphlets, speeches, etc.) examining acts of treason throughout history and around the world.  

Chapters also look at tyrannical governments’ attempts to label their enemies as treasonous. Individuals and events covered include Canada’s Louis Riel; Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI of France; the anti-Nazi White Rose Movement; Great Britain’s Thomas Paine; Nelson Mandela and the 1956 Treason Trial in South Africa; among many others.

The material is organized into five sections, each beginning with a brief introduction that examines the importance of the topic through a variety of historical documents:

• Treason and Law
• Treason in Wartime
• Treason and Espionage
• Treason and Ideology
• Treason and Insurrection

See the full Table of Contents for entries under each section.