Klappentext der Neuauflage 2015: Imperialism in the eyes of the world is still Europe's original sin, even though the empires themselves have long since disappeared. Among the most egregious of imperial acts was Victorian Britain's seemingly random partition of Africa. In this classic work of...

The absentee slave-owner: representations and identities -- The debate over compensation -- The distribution of slave-compensation -- The structure of slave-ownership -- The large-scale rentier-owners -- 'Widows and orphans': small-scale British slave-owners -- Merchants, bankers and agents in...