Empire of Neglect: The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism, by Christopher Taylor
Journal: Victorian Studies
Year: 2020

Reviewed by: Empire of Neglect: The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism by Christopher Taylor Theodore Koditschek (bio) Empire of Neglect: The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism, by Christopher Taylor; pp. xi + 307. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018, $104.95, $27.95 paper, £80.00, £20.99 paper. In a world dominated by the competitive logic of free trade, what happens to those groups and places whose diminished profitability consigns them to feelings of abandonment and negl