Imperial Underworld

Name: Imperial Underworld
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781107686793
Price: 739 CZK
Availability: InStock

An Escaped Convict and the Transformation of the British Colonial Order

Autor: Kirsten McKenzie

Jazyk:

Vazba: Brožovaná

Vydavatel: Cambridge University Press

Dostupnost: 50 % šance

Prohledáme celý svět

739 Kč

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

Informace o knize

Autor

Kirsten McKenzie

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

2016

Stránek

330

EAN

9781107686793

ISBN

1107686792

Enbook ID

09504358

Vydavatel

Cambridge University Press

Hmotnost

540

Rozměry

228 x 154 x 18

Kompletní popis

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.

Mohlo by vás zajímat

Zákaznicí kteří koupili tuto knihu koupili také

Nejčastěji hledané

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Produkty

Produkty

Nejčastěji hledané

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Produkty

Produkty

Imperial Underworld

An Escaped Convict and the Transformation of the British Colonial Order

Informace o knize

Kompletní popis

Mohlo by vás zajímat

Zákaznicí kteří koupili tuto knihu koupili také