Subverting Empire [electronic resource] : Deviance and Disorder in the British Colonial World /
Jackson, Will.editor.
Manktelow, Emily.editor.
Across their empire, the British spoke ceaselessly of deviants of undesirables, ne'er do wells, petit-tyrants and rogues. With obvious literary appeal, these soon became stock figures. This is the first study to take deviance seriously, bringing together histories that reveal the complexity of a phenomenon that remains only dimly understood.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Across their empire, the British spoke ceaselessly of deviants of undesirables, ne'er do wells, petit-tyrants and rogues. With obvious literary appeal, these soon became stock figures. This is the first study to take deviance seriously, bringing together histories that reveal the complexity of a phenomenon that remains only dimly understood.
Introduction thinking with deviance / Will Jackson and Emily Manktelow -- From pawns to players : rewriting the lives of three indigenous go-betweens / Kate Fullagar -- "Washing the blackmoor white" : interracial intimacy and coloured women's agency in Jamaica / Meleisa Ono-George -- "The starched boundaries of civilization" : sympathetic allegiance and the subversive politics of affect in colonial India / Andrew J. May -- "Base and wicked characters " : European island dwellers in the western Pacific, 1788-1850 / Malcolm Campbell -- Thinking with gossip : deviance, rumour and reputation in the South Seas Mission of the London Missionary Society / Emily J. Manktelow -- Producing and managing deviance in the disabled colonial self : John Kitto, the deaf traveller / Esme Cleall -- Exporting and repatriating the colonial insane : New Zealand before the First World War / Angela McCarthy -- Not seeking certain proof : interracial sex and archival haze in high-imperial Natal / Will Jackson -- Devious documents : corruption and paperwork in colonial Burma c.1900 / Jonathan Saha -- Empire and sexual deviance : debating white woman's prostitution in early 20th century Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia / Ushehwedi Kufakurinani -- R. V. Mrs Utam Singh : race, gender and deviance in a Kenyan murder case, 1949-51 / Stacey Hynd.
Civilization—History.
Imperialism.
Social history.
World history.
Sociology.
Community psychology.
Environmental psychology.
Cultural History.
Imperialism and Colonialism.
Social History.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
Sociology, general.
Community and Environmental Psychology.