A well-researched, well-presented investigation of the use of violence throughout the history and geography of the British Empire. It brings a great amount of evidence to not only demonstrate the severity and frequency of violence, but also of the legal and ideological work that enabled Britain's "legalized lawlessness," that eradicated evidence and sympathy for its victims, all while bragging of a deeply racialized mission to "bring civilization," justifying—where it could not hide—the dealing of death and suffering as necessary to establish a liberal economic and civil order. Thorough, insightful, heartbreaking and well worth the time and effort to read and bring back to bear on your understanding of history and the current and future state of the world.