Subverting Empire: Deviance and Disorder in the British Colonial World (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies)

by WillJackson (Editor), EmilyManktelow (Editor)

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  2015

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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.