Subverting Empire: Deviance and Disorder in the British Colonial World

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction: Thinking with Deviance....Pages 1-21
From Pawns to Players: Rewriting the Lives of Three Indigenous Go-Betweens....Pages 22-41
‘Washing the Blackamoor White’: Interracial Intimacy and Coloured Women’s Agency in Jamaica....Pages 42-60
‘The Starched Boundaries of Civilization’: Sympathetic Allegiance and the Subversive Politics of Affect in Colonial India....Pages 61-84
‘Base and Wicked Characters’: European Island Dwellers in the Western Pacific, 1788–1850....Pages 85-103
Thinking with Gossip: Deviance, Rumour and Reputation in the South Seas Mission of the London Missionary Society....Pages 104-125
Producing and Managing Deviance in the Disabled Colonial Self: John Kitto, the Deaf Traveller....Pages 126-144
Expelling and Repatriating the Colonial Insane: New Zealand before the First World War....Pages 145-166
Devious Documents: Corruption and Paperwork in Colonial Burma, c. 1900....Pages 167-184
Not Seeking Certain Proof: Interracial Sex and Archival Haze in High-Imperial Natal....Pages 185-204
Empire and Sexual Deviance: Debating White Women’s Prostitution in Early 20th Century Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia....Pages 205-225
R. v. Mrs Utam Singh: Race, Gender and Deviance in a Kenyan Murder Case, 1949–51....Pages 226-244
Back Matter....Pages 245-269