Subverting Empire: Deviance and Disorder in the British Colonial World

by Will Jackson

The British Empire was never as orderly as its architects would have us believe. Across the British imperial world, rules were broken, norms and social conventions were ignored and boundaries were transgressed. This is the first historical study to probe the colonial history of deviance, bringing to light stories of subversive behaviour that were deliberately covered up. With case studies ranging from Britain to New Zealand, India to East and Southern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137465867
• ISBN13: 9781137465863
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"