In 1845 an expedition led by Sir John Franklin vanished in the Canadian Arctic. The enduring obse...

Not just a method of crime control or individual punishment in Britain's African territories, the...

This book considers histories of home from the margins, highlighting the perspectives of displace...

Drawing on unpublished archival material, this volume compares Moravian economic practice in thre...

'Investigating the history of vagrants in colonial Australia and New Zealand, this book provides ...

A study of children in the Cape colony during the period of slave emancipation to explore changin...

Across their empire, the British spoke ceaselessly of deviants of undesirables, ne'er do wells, p...

Presents an innovative argument for the significance of missionaries' familial relations in the p...

Missionary families presents an innovative argument for the significance of missionaries' familia...

In 1843 on the island of Tahiti the evangelical missionary Rev. Alexander Simpson was accused of ...

Across their empire, the British spoke ceaselessly of deviants of undesirables, ne'er do wells, p...