Chapter 1 Introduction: Thinking with Deviance

Chapter 2 From Pawns to Players: Rewriting the Lives of Three Indigenous Go-Betweens

Chapter 3 ‘Washing the Blackamoor White’: Interracial Intimacy and Coloured Women’s Agency in Jamaica

Chapter 4 ‘The Starched Boundaries of Civilization’: Sympathetic Allegiance and the Subversive Politics of Affect in Colonial India

Chapter 5 ‘Base and Wicked Characters’: European Island Dwellers in the Western Pacific, 1788–1850

Chapter 6 Thinking with Gossip: Deviance, Rumour and Reputation in the South Seas Mission of the London Missionary Society

Chapter 7 Producing and Managing Deviance in the Disabled Colonial Self: John Kitto, the Deaf Traveller

Chapter 9 Devious Documents: Corruption and Paperwork in Colonial Burma, c. 1900

Chapter 10 Not Seeking Certain Proof: Interracial Sex and Archival Haze in High-Imperial Natal

Chapter 11 Empire and Sexual Deviance: Debating White Women’s Prostitution in Early 20th Century Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia

Chapter 12 R. v. Mrs Utam Singh: Race, Gender and Deviance in a Kenyan Murder Case, 1949–51