The Truth About Empire comes from expert historians who believe that the truth, as far as we can ascertain it, matters; that our decades of painstaking research

This book explores the decision of the British Empire to import Chinese labour to southern Africa despite the already tense racial situation in the region. It e

The volumes in this set, originally published between 1968 and 1989, draw together research by leading academics in the area of the British Empire and provides

First published in 1984. Indentured labour migration in the nineteenth century intersects many of the most serious issues of our own time - racism, Third World