Subverting Empire

Deviance and Disorder in the British Colonial World

• Author(s): Will Jackson, Emily Manktelow,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 269
• ISBN_10: 1137465875
  ISBN_13: 9781137465870
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Social History , History / General , History / World , Social Science / Sociology / General , Psychology / Social Psychology , Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism ,

Description:... 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.