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Author Wiener, Martin J.

Title An empire on trial : race, murder, and justice under British rule, 1870-1935 / Martin J. Wiener
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 255 pages)
Contents On the high seas -- Queensland, 1869-1889 -- Fiji, 1875-1885 -- Trinidad and the Bahamas, 1886-1897 -- India : the setting -- India : in the legal arena, 1889-1922 -- Kenya, 1905-1934 -- British Honduras, 1934
Summary "An Empire on Trial is the first book to explore the issue of interracial homicide in the British Empire during its height - examining these incidents and the prosecution of such cases in each of seven colonies scattered throughout the world. It uncovers and analyzes the tensions of empire that underlay British rule and delves into how the problem of maintaining a liberal empire manifested itself in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The work demonstrates the importance of the processes of criminal justice to the history of the empire and the advantage of a trans-territorial approach to understanding the complexities and nuances of its workings." "An Empire on Trial is of interest to those concerned with race, empire, or criminal justice, and to historians of modern Britain or of colonial Australia, India, Kenya, or the Caribbean. Political and postcolonial theorists writing on liberalism and empire, or race and empire, will also find this book invaluable."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-248) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Racism -- Colonies -- Great Britain
Murder -- Colonies -- Great Britain
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Colonies -- Great Britain -- History
TRUE CRIME -- Murder -- General.
British colonies
Race relations
Mord
Strafjustiz
Rassismus
Kolonie
Kolonie.
Mord.
Strafrechtspflege.
Rassismus.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Colonies -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056653
Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century
Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century
Subject Great Britain
Großbritannien
Grossbritannien.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008018061
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