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

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

Between 1803 and 1853, some 80,000 convicts were transported to Van Diemen’s Land. Revising established models of the colonies, which tend to depict convict w

In Crime and Empire, Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee examines a wide range of nineteenth-century British fictions about crime in India--from writers such as Wilkie Col