Subverting Empire : Deviance and Disorder in the British Colonial World.

Cover -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Thinking with Deviance -- 2 From Pawns to Players: Rewriting the Lives of Three Indigenous Go-Betweens -- 3 'Washing the Blackamoor White': Interracial Intimacy and Coloured Women's Agency in Jamaica -- 4 'The Starched Boundaries of Civilization': Sympathetic Allegiance and the Subversive Politics of Affect in Colonial India -- 5 'Base and Wicked Characters': European Island Dwellers in the Western Pacific, 1788-1850 -- 6 Thinking with Gossip: Deviance, Rumour and Reputation in the South Seas Mission of the London Missionary Society -- 7 Producing and Managing Deviance in the Disabled Colonial Self: John Kitto, the Deaf Traveller -- 8 Expelling and Repatriating the Colonial Insane: New Zealand before the First World War -- 9 Devious Documents: Corruption and Paperwork in Colonial Burma, c. 1900 -- 10 Not Seeking Certain Proof: Interracial Sex and Archival Haze in High-Imperial Natal -- 11 Empire and Sexual Deviance: Debating White Women's Prostitution in Early 20th Century Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia -- 12 R. v. Mrs Utam Singh: Race, Gender and Deviance in a Kenyan Murder Case, 1949-51 -- Bibliography -- 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.

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