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Author: Kirsten Mckenzie
Number of Pages: 332 pages
Published Date: 01 Jun 2016
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Publication Country: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9781107070738
File Name: Imperial.Underworld.An.Escaped.Convict.and.the.Transformation.of.the.British.Colonial.Order.pdf
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During a major overhaul of British imperial policy following the Napoleonic Wars, an escaped convict reinvented himself as an improbable activist, renowned for his exposes 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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Imperial Underworld : An Escaped Convict and the Transformation of the British Colonial Order by Kirsten Mckenzie
Author: Kirsten Mckenzie
Number of Pages: 332 pages
Published Date: 01 Jun 2016
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Publication Country: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9781107070738
File Name: Imperial.Underworld.An.Escaped.Convict.and.the.Transformation.of.the.British.Colonial.Order.pdf
Download Link: Imperial Underworld An Escaped Convict and the Transformation of the British Colonial Order
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During a major overhaul of British imperial policy following the Napoleonic Wars, an escaped convict reinvented himself as an improbable activist, renowned for his exposes 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.
Read online Imperial Underworld : An Escaped Convict and the Transformation of the British Colonial Order Buy and read online Imperial Underworld : An Escaped Convict and the Transformation of the British Colonial Order Download Imperial Underworld : An Escaped Convict and the Transformation of the British Colonial Order for pc, mac, kindle, readers Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook Imperial Underworld : An Escaped Convict and the Transformation of the British Colonial Order