Subverting Empire

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

• Table of Contents 1. Introduction: Thinking With Deviance; Will Jackson and Emily Manktelow2. From Pawns to Players: Rewriting the Lives of Three Indigenous Go-Betweens; Kate Fullagar 3. 'Washing the Blackmoor White': Interracial Intimacy and Coloured Women's Agency in Jamaica; Meleisa Ono-George 4. 'The starched boundaries of civilization': sympathetic allegiance and the subversive politics of affect in colonial India; Andrew J. May5. 'Base and Wicked Characters': European Island Dwellers in the Western Pacific, 1788 – 1850 ; Malcolm Campbell6. Thinking With Gossip: Deviance, Rumour And Reputation In The South Seas Mission Of The London Missionary Society; Emily J. Manktelow7. Producing And Managing Deviance In The Disabled Colonial Self: John Kitto, The Deaf Traveller; Esme Cleall8. Exporting and Repatriating the Colonial Insane: New Zealand before the First World War; Angela McCarthy 10. Not Seeking Certain Proof: Interracial Sex And Archival Haze In High-Imperial Natal; Will Jackson 11. Devious Documents: Corruption and Paperwork in Colonial Burma c.1900; Jonathan Saha 12. Empire and Sexual Deviance: Debating White Woman's Prostitution in Early 20th Century Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia; Ushehwedu Kufakurinani 13. R. v. Mrs Utam Singh: Race, Gender and Deviance in a Kenyan Murder Case, 1949-51; Stacey Hynd