Subverting Empire

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction: Thinking with Deviance

   • Will Jackson, Emily J. Manktelow

   Pages 1-21

3. From Pawns to Players: Rewriting the Lives of Three Indigenous Go-Betweens

   • Kate Fullagar

   Pages 22-41

4. ‘Washing the Blackamoor White’: Interracial Intimacy and Coloured Women’s Agency in Jamaica

   • Meleisa Ono-George

   Pages 42-60

5. ‘The Starched Boundaries of Civilization’: Sympathetic Allegiance and the Subversive Politics of Affect in Colonial India

   • Andrew J. May

   Pages 61-84

6. ‘Base and Wicked Characters’: European Island Dwellers in the Western Pacific, 1788–1850

   • Malcolm Campbell

   Pages 85-103

7. Thinking with Gossip: Deviance, Rumour and Reputation in the South Seas Mission of the London Missionary Society

   • Emily J. Manktelow

   Pages 104-125

8. Producing and Managing Deviance in the Disabled Colonial Self: John Kitto, the Deaf Traveller

   • Esme Cleall

   Pages 126-144

9. Expelling and Repatriating the Colonial Insane: New Zealand before the First World War

   • Angela McCarthy

   Pages 145-166

10. Devious Documents: Corruption and Paperwork in Colonial Burma, c. 1900

    • Jonathan Saha

    Pages 167-184

11. Not Seeking Certain Proof: Interracial Sex and Archival Haze in High-Imperial Natal

    • Will Jackson

    Pages 185-204

12. Empire and Sexual Deviance: Debating White Women’s Prostitution in Early 20th Century Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia

    • Ushehwedu Kufakurinani

    Pages 205-225

13. R. v. Mrs Utam Singh: Race, Gender and Deviance in a Kenyan Murder Case, 1949–51

    • Stacey Hynd

    Pages 226-244

14. Back Matter

    Pages 245-269

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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.

• Deviance
• empire
• sex
• transgression
• going native
• race
• complexity
• gender
• politics
• Sex
• society

• University of Leeds, UK

  Will Jackson

• University of Kent, UK

  Emily J. Manktelow

Emily J. Manktelow is a Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of York.

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