This book explores interracial homicide in the British Empire during its height - examining these incidents in each of seven colonies scattered throughout the world.

Martin J. Wiener is Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of History at Rice University. He is the author of numerous works, including English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit 1850-1980, Reconstructing the Criminal, and Men of Blood. Dr Wiener is a past President of the North American Conference on British Studies and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

1. On the high seas; 2. Queensland, 1869-1889; 3. Fiji, 1875-1885; 4. Trinidad and the Bahamas, 1886-1897; 5. India: the setting; 6. India: in the legal arena, 1889-1922; 7. Kenya, 1905-1934; 8. British Honduras 1934.