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Subverting Empire

Deviance and Disorder in the British Colonial World

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Editors:
  1. Will Jackson

    1. University of Leeds, UK

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  2. Emily J. Manktelow

    1. University of Kent, UK

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Part of the book series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies (CIPCSS)

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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.

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Thinking with Deviance

    • Will Jackson, Emily J. Manktelow
    Pages 1-21

  3. From Pawns to Players: Rewriting the Lives of Three Indigenous Go-Betweens

    • Kate Fullagar
    Pages 22-41

  4. ‘Washing the Blackamoor White’: Interracial Intimacy and Coloured Women’s Agency in Jamaica

    • Meleisa Ono-George
    Pages 42-60

  5. ‘The Starched Boundaries of Civilization’: Sympathetic Allegiance and the Subversive Politics of Affect in Colonial India

    • Andrew J. May
    Pages 61-84

  6. ‘Base and Wicked Characters’: European Island Dwellers in the Western Pacific, 1788–1850

    • Malcolm Campbell
    Pages 85-103

  7. Thinking with Gossip: Deviance, Rumour and Reputation in the South Seas Mission of the London Missionary Society

    • Emily J. Manktelow
    Pages 104-125

  8. Producing and Managing Deviance in the Disabled Colonial Self: John Kitto, the Deaf Traveller

    • Esme Cleall
    Pages 126-144

  9. Expelling and Repatriating the Colonial Insane: New Zealand before the First World War

    • Angela McCarthy
    Pages 145-166

  10. Devious Documents: Corruption and Paperwork in Colonial Burma, c. 1900

    • Jonathan Saha
    Pages 167-184

  11. Not Seeking Certain Proof: Interracial Sex and Archival Haze in High-Imperial Natal

    • Will Jackson
    Pages 185-204

  12. Empire and Sexual Deviance: Debating White Women’s Prostitution in Early 20th Century Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia

    • Ushehwedu Kufakurinani
    Pages 205-225

  13. R. v. Mrs Utam Singh: Race, Gender and Deviance in a Kenyan Murder Case, 1949–51

    • Stacey Hynd
    Pages 226-244

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 245-269
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Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Leeds, UK

    Will Jackson

  • University of Kent, UK

    Emily J. Manktelow

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Emily J. Manktelow is a Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of York.

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