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Imperial Underworld - An Escaped Convict and the Transformation of the British Colonial Order (Paperback)
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Imperial Underworld - An Escaped Convict and the Transformation of the British Colonial Order (Paperback)
Series: Critical Perspectives on Empire
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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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