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This book is a major contribution to the comparative histories of crime and criminal justice, focusing on the legal regimes of the British empire during the nin

Reading fiction from high and low culture together, Fiction, Crime, and Empire skillfully sheds light on how crime fiction responded to the British and American

Between 1803 and 1853, some 80,000 convicts were transported to Van Diemen's Land. Revising established models of the colonies--which depicted convict women as

A history of US imperialism that uncovers the ever present exploitation, violence and media control that have marked the last two decades of empire.

This book offers a pioneering window into the elusive workings of state-corporate crime within the mining industries. It follows a single, brutal campaign of re