Imperial underworld : an escaped convict and the transformation of the British Colonial order / Kirs...
Imperial underworld : an escaped convict and the transformation of the British Colonial order / Kirs...
Imperial underworld : an escaped convict and the transformation of the British Colonial order / Kirsten McKenzie. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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English
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1 online resource (xi, 318 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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text
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computer
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online resource
Contents
Cover -- Half title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations and map -- Cast of main characters -- Acknowledgements -- Map -- Introduction: `A soul reared in the lap of liberty' -- 1 'Plausible and audacious frauds': The theatre of imperial politics and reform -- 2 'A Dae...
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2016.
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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 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,...
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Imperial underworld : an escaped convict and the transformation of the British Colonial order / Kirsten McKenzie. [electronic resource]
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Critical perspectives on empire
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Jan 2016).
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74VKaz0aJbVA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaz0aJbVA
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ISBN
1-107-70758-7
1-316-45215-8
1-316-45551-3
DDC
364.163
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991024402508802626
