Colonial Crimes

When Tiffany and Rosie travel to a colonial-themed town, they suspect the business manager might be engaging in some unethical practices... ... but they stumble into a murder instead. Who could've killed the much-disliked "town governor"? As secrets are unveiled, tensions rise, and the duo find themselves scrambling to uncover the truth before the killer strikes again... Praise for A.R. Winters: "The perfect balance of being lighthearted, but still a serious page-turning mystery." - Jaycie D, Amazon.com "A fun cozy mystery with engaging and entertaining characters" - lq, Amazon.com "For ...

A revelatory account of how African Independence was systematically undermined by the United States. "Fascinating information, original research, and bold ideas." —NPR "A triumph of archival research." —Jacobin In 1958 in Accra, Ghana, the Hands Off Africa conference brought together the...

Early twentieth-century Singapore is a place where a person can disappear, and Harriet Gordon hopes to make a new life for herself there, leaving her tragic memories behind her--but murder gets in the way. Singapore, 1910--Desperate for a fresh start, Harriet Gordon finds herself living with her...

The convicts were sent away as Britain’s problem. They became part of Australia’s foundation. The Convict Nation tells the story of the transported men and women who helped shape early Australia through punishment, labour, survival, resistance, and reinvention. Britain sent convicts across the world to remove them from sight, punish them by distance, and use their labour in a new imperial settlement. But once they arrived in New South Wales, their story changed. They became workers, servants, road builders, domestic labourers, mothers, fathers, runaways, rebels, ticket holders, ...

On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 1722, two White fur traders attacked an Indigenous hunter and left him for dead near Conestoga, Pennsylvania. This act of brutality set into motion a remarkable series of criminal investigations and cross-cultural negotiations that challenged the definition of justice in early America. Leading historian Nicole Eustace reconstructs the crime and its aftermath, bringing us into the overlapping worlds of white colonists and Indigenous peoples in this formative period.

GERMANY’S COLONIAL REPORT CARD Genocide, Empire and the Forgotten German Legacy in Africa Germany’s African empire lasted only a few decades. But within that short time, it produced some of the most brutal episodes in colonial African history. From the Herero and Nama genocide in Namibia to the scorched-earth destruction of the Maji Maji rebellion in East Africa, Germany’s colonies became laboratories of: racial ideology, militarized rule, forced labor, concentration camps, and imperial violence. Why has this history remained so forgotten compared to other colonial empires? Did German...

Australia has always had a complicated relationship with authority. Few figures reveal that more clearly than the bushranger. The Bushrangers: Outlaws, Police and the Making of the Australian Legend tells the story of the armed horsemen who haunted colonial roads, robbed coaches, challenged police, terrified victims and later became part of Australia’s national mythology. This is not a romantic tribute to outlaws. Bushrangers were criminals, and many were violent men whose victims were ordinary travellers, workers, storekeepers, troopers and families. But their story cannot be understood ...

The bushrangers of colonial Australia represent one of history's most compelling stories of resistance, survival, and the collision between individual defiance and state power. This modern reader's edition tells the hidden story behind the legend—not merely recounting famous robberies and dramatic pursuits, but exploring the complex ecosystem that sustained the outlaws: the women who sheltered them, the communities that protected them, the Aboriginal trackers who hunted them, the sympathiser networks that made survival possible. You will encounter: Michael Howe, the first bushranger, ...

Crime and Custom in Colonial Society brings together, for the first time in a single volume, the complete stories from In Court and Kampong and In Days That Are Dead by Hugh Clifford—newly introduced and contextualized by Graeme Newman for modern readers. Set in British Malaya at the height of empire, these vivid and often unsettling narratives explore a world where radically different systems of law, morality, and social obligation collide. In the kampong villages, life is governed by custom, kinship, and deeply rooted traditions. In the colonial courts, British officials impose formal ...

Retroceda a las ciudades sombrías, las aldeas remotas y las fronteras coloniales del siglo XVIII, una época en la que la razón y la ilustración coexistían con la superstición, la brutalidad y el crimen implacable. En 25 crímenes reales que conmocionaron al siglo XVIII, la historia cobra vida a través de veinticinco casos auténticos, profundamente investigados y reconstruidos a partir de actas judiciales, periódicos y relatos contemporáneos. Desde la Colonia del Cabo en el sur de África hasta las ciudades de Europa y las colonias del Caribe, Norteamérica y Sudamérica, estas ...

A body comes out of the Rowley marsh in the autumn of 1741, fifty years after it went into it. The minister sends for Patience Hartwell. She is thirty-eight, unmarried, the daughter of the last minister, and the only person left in the parish who can read the old hands. He asks her to search the church records for a name. What she finds is a page that was never bound in, a cabinet that appears on no inventory, and twelve ruled pages scraped clean of the signatures they once carried. The town understands what she is doing before she does. A door that has stood open every day of her life is ...

Mary Bryant was not meant to survive. Convicted in England and transported to the brutal new penal colony of New South Wales, she faced a life of hardship, hunger, and confinement at the edge of the known world. Instead, she attempted the unthinkable. In 1791, Mary Bryant, her husband, their children, and fellow convicts stole a small open boat and sailed more than 3,000 miles along the unforgiving Australian coastline in one of the most extraordinary escape attempts in penal history. This narrative true-crime biography traces her journey from Cornwall to transportation, from Sydney Cove to...

The Colonial Parkway Murders - the name given eight murders that took place in the Tidewater region in the late 1980s, two of which were on the historic Colonial Parkway, the nation’s narrowest National Park. Young people in the prime of their lives were the targets. But the pattern that stitched this special kind of evil together was more like a spider web of theory, intrigue, and mathematics. Then, mysteriously, the killing spree stopped. Now, father-daughter true crime authors Blaine Pardoe and Victoria Hester blow the dust off of these cases.

Live the action of six deadly and seminal conflicts in Australia’s first 150 years: The Eureka Stockade – The Gold Miners of Ballarat’s valiant stand against Government tyranny. The Siege at Glenrowan – Australia’s most infamous outlaw, Ned Kelly, shoots it out with police. The Battle of Cocos Islands – The face-off between HMAS Sydney and SMS Emden would result in the Australian Navy’s first victory. The Broken Hill Massacre – A call to jihad in Turkey is the catalyst for the first terrorist act in Australia. The Battle of Surry Hills – A rambunctious American, called ‘...

A minister's household. A frightened community. A legal system that convinced itself the impossible was happening — and then couldn't stop. This is the story of the Salem witch trials told through the people who lived it: Tituba, the enslaved woman whose confession set the machinery in motion; Bridget Bishop, the first to hang; Rebecca Nurse, the pious elder whose jury acquitted her — until they didn't; George Burroughs, the minister recalled from exile to be named a satanic ringleader; Giles Corey, pressed to death under stones rather than enter a plea that would cost his family ...

ITALY’S COLONIAL REPORT CARD Fascism, Empire and the African Experience Italy’s empire in Africa was built on dreams of glory, Roman revival and fascist power. But behind the propaganda of “civilization” stood: concentration camps, chemical warfare, forced labor, racial segregation, and brutal colonial repression. From the deserts of Libya to the mountains of Ethiopia, Italian colonialism became one of the clearest examples of how fascism and empire could merge into systems of organized violence. Why did Fascist Italy invade Ethiopia? Why has Italy’s colonial history remained less...

La Guadeloupe, une île paradisiaque... terre de tous les dangers. Sous le soleil des Caraïbes, trois touristes sont retrouvés assassinés, un harpon de plongée planté en plein cœur. Trois meurtres commis à l'aube, accompagnés d'une mise en scène macabre et glaçante. Pourtant, aucun lien n'unit les victimes qui séjournaient pour la première fois dans l'île. Plus étonnant encore, un étrange vieillard prédit à chaque fois les crimes dans leurs plus imprévisibles détails.

Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry Finalist for the 2020 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry Finalist for the 2020 Forward Prize for Best Collection Postcolonial Love Poem, the brilliant second collection from Natalie Diaz, holds...

“A deadly conspiracy. A lost love. One reporter’s battle for truth in the British Empire’s wild frontier.” Step into the shadowy streets of 1886 Wellington, New Zealand, where secrets, scandal, and suspense collide. In this riveting Victorian-era historical novel, Newspaper reporter Leonard Hardy’s world is shattered after a fateful encounter with a young, enigmatic, and immoral woman with deadly intentions. When his reputation and relationship with his beloved fiancée are threatened by ruthless adversaries—including a cunning rival reporter and a criminal underworld intent on ...

A nun who fled enclosure. A soldier who crossed oceans. A case that forced power to decide. Born in early seventeenth-century Spain and raised within convent walls, Catalina de Erauso escaped a life of enclosure and moved through the Spanish Empire under a male identity. She worked, travelled, fought, and survived in worlds governed by violence, honour, and rigid social control—until repeated conflict and custody brought her life under institutional scrutiny. The Lieutenant Nun reconstructs Catalina’s life as a historical case, following the points where private survival collided with ...