Subverting empire : deviance and disorder in the British colonial world /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Jackson, Will, 1980- (Author, Editor), Manktelow, Emily J. (Author, Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, [UK] ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Edition:	1st published 2015 by Palgrave Macmillan.
Series:	Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
Subjects:	Great Britain > Colonies > History. Great Britain > Colonies > Social policy. Great Britain > Colonies > Race relations. Commonwealth countries > Civilization. Great Britain > Civilization. Imperialism.

Table of Contents:

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.