Imperial Underworld

Name: Imperial Underworld
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781107686793
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An Escaped Convict and the Transformation of the British Colonial Order

Автор: Kirsten McKenzie

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Cambridge University Press

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During a major overhaul of British imperial policy following the Napoleonic Wars, an escaped convict...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Kirsten McKenzie

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2016

страници

330

EAN

9781107686793

ISBN

1107686792

Enbook ID

09504358

Издател

Cambridge University Press

Теглоt

540

Размери

228 x 154 x 18

Пълно описание

During a major overhaul of British imperial policy following the Napoleonic Wars, an escaped convict reinvented himself as an improbable activist, renowned for his exposés of government misconduct and corruption in the Cape Colony and New South Wales. Charting scandals unleashed by the man known variously as Alexander Loe Kaye and William Edwards, Imperial Underworld offers a radical new account of the legal, constitutional and administrative transformations that unfolded during the British colonial order of the 1820s. In a narrative rife with daring jail breaks, infamous agents provocateurs, and allegations of sexual deviance, Professor Kirsten McKenzie argues that such colourful and salacious aspects of colonial administrations cannot be separated from the real business of political and social change. The book instead highlights the importance of taking gossip, paranoia, factional infighting and political spin seriously to show the extent to which ostensibly marginal figures and events influenced the transformation of the nineteenth-century British Empire.

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