Subverting Empire
Deviance and Disorder in the British Colonial World| By: | null |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Print ISBN: | 9781137465863 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781137465870 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2015 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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.