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

The British Empire was never as orderly as its architects would have us believe. Across the British imperial world, rules were broken, norms and social conventions were ignored and boundaries were transgressed. This is the first historical study to probe the colonial history of deviance, bringing to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Jackson, Will, 1980- (Autor, Editor ), Manktelow, Emily J. (Autor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [UK] ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Colección:Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
Temas:
Imperialism.
Impérialisme.
Society & culture: general.
Social & cultural history.
Sexual behaviour.
General & world history.
HISTORY > World.
British colonies
Civilization
Imperialism
Race relations
Social policy
Great Britain > Colonies > History.
Great Britain > Colonies > Social policy.
Great Britain > Colonies > Race relations.
Commonwealth countries > Civilization.
Great Britain > Civilization.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Histoire.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Politique sociale.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Relations raciales.
Pays du Commonwealth > Civilisation.
Grande-Bretagne > Civilisation.
Commonwealth countries
Great Britain
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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