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Empire's Children : Child Emigration, Welfare, and the Decline of the British World, 1869-1967.
A definitive history of child emigration across the British Empire from the 1860s to its decline in the 1960s.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations and table; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Poverty and possibility in the era of Greater Britain; Britons overseas; Imperial potential; Pauper children for a White South Africa; Conclusion; 2 Developing empire, building children; Renewing the bonds of Greater Britain; Empire settlement and the farm school model; An empire of healthy children; Fit for Canada? The Bondfield Commission of 1924; Conclusion; 3 Upholding the banner of White Australia; Populate or perish; Crafting Australians; Conclusion.
- 4 "Defective" boys and "problem" girls: selection standards in 1930s Australia and Southern RhodesiaMental testing and repatriation from Australia; The psychology of Whiteness in Southern Rhodesia; Conclusion; 5 From imperial child welfare to national childhoods; Fraying imperial ties; Good homes overseas; Forging national childhoods; Conclusion; 6 Growing up in the twilight of empire; Choosing future citizens; Education for socialization; Cultivating national character; Conclusion; Conclusion: the problem of postimperial belonging.
- Family and identity in the late twentieth-century critique of child emigrationExiled from empire: nationhood after the demise of the British world; Appendix: oral histories; Bibliography; Archival collections; United Kingdom; Australia; United States; Published sources; Index.