Subverting Empire : Deviance and Disorder in the British Colonial World, PDF eBook

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

Edited by Will Jackson, Emily Manktelow

Part of the Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies series

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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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