Author: James Epstein

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-03-22

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 110700330X

A dramatic history of the British public's confrontation with the iniquities of nineteenth-century colonial rule. James Epstein uses the trial of the first governor of Trinidad for the torture of a freewoman of color to reassess the nature of British colonialism and the ways in which empire troubled the metropolitan imagination.