Treason is often treated as a pathological distortion of political life. However, the essays in Traitors propose that treachery is a constant, essential, and normal part of the processes through which social and political order is produced.

Studies of British traitors during the last war.

With Malice toward Some: Treason and Loyalty in the Civil War Era

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