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OverviewAcross 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Will Jackson , Emily ManktelowPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 1st ed. 2015 Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 4.532kg ISBN: 9781137465863ISBN 10: 1137465867 Pages: 269 Publication Date: 13 July 2015 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsTable of Contents 1. Introduction: Thinking With Deviance; Will Jackson and Emily Manktelow 2. From Pawns to Players: Rewriting the Lives of Three Indigenous Go-Betweens; Kate Fullagar 3. 'Washing the Blackmoor White': Interracial Intimacy and Coloured Women's Agency in Jamaica; Meleisa Ono-George 4. 'The starched boundaries of civilization': sympathetic allegiance and the subversive politics of affect in colonial India; Andrew J. May 5. 'Base and Wicked Characters': European Island Dwellers in the Western Pacific, 1788 – 1850 ; Malcolm Campbell 6. Thinking With Gossip: Deviance, Rumour And Reputation In The South Seas Mission Of The London Missionary Society; Emily J. Manktelow 7. Producing And Managing Deviance In The Disabled Colonial Self: John Kitto, The Deaf Traveller; Esme Cleall 8. Exporting and Repatriating the Colonial Insane: New Zealand before the First World War; Angela McCarthy 10. Not Seeking Certain Proof: Interracial Sex And Archival Haze In High-Imperial Natal; Will Jackson 11. Devious Documents: Corruption and Paperwork in Colonial Burma c.1900; Jonathan Saha 12. Empire and Sexual Deviance: Debating White Woman's Prostitution in Early 20th Century Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia; Ushehwedu Kufakurinani 13. R. v. Mrs Utam Singh: Race, Gender and Deviance in a Kenyan Murder Case, 1949-51; Stacey HyndReviewsAuthor InformationEmily J. Manktelow is a Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of York. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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