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OverviewAge was a critical factor in shaping imperial experience, yet it has not received any sustained scholarly attention. This pioneering interdisciplinary collection is the first to investigate the lives of children and young people and the construction of modes of childhood and youth within the British world. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Simon Sleight , Shirleene RobinsonPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 1st ed. 2016 Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.560kg ISBN: 9781137489401ISBN 10: 1137489405 Pages: 328 Publication Date: 16 November 2015 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: The World in Miniature; Simon Sleight and Shirleene Robinson 1. A Motherly Concern for Children: Invocations of Queen Victoria in Imperial Child Rescue Literature; Shurlee Swain 2. Ayah, Caregiver to Anglo-Indian Children c. 1750–1947; Suzanne Conway 3. Babies of the Empire: Science, Nation, and Truby King ' 's Mothercraft in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa; S.E. Duff 4. ' 'He is Hardened to the Climate and a Little Bleached by it ' 's [sic] Influence ' ': Imperial Childhoods in Scotland and Madras, c. 1800–1830; Ellen Filor 5. ' 'Dear Mummy and Daddy ' ': Reading Wartime Letters from British Children Evacuated to Canada During the Second World War; Claire L. Halstead 6. East African Students in a (Post-)Imperial World; Timothy Nicholson 7. Resistance and Race: Aboriginal Child Workers in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth- Century Australia; Shirleene Robinson 8. Health, Race and Family in Colonial Bengal; Satadru Sen 9. Race, Indigeneity and the Baden-Powell Girl Guides: Age, Gender and the British World, 1908–1920; Mary Clare Martin 10. Transforming Narratives of Colonial Danger: Imagining the Environments of New Zealand and Australia in Children ' 's Literature, 1862–1899; Michelle J. Smith 11. The ' 'Willful ' ' Girl in the Anglo-World: Sentimental Heroines and Wild Colonial Girls, 1872–1923; Hilary Emmett 12. Youth and Homosex: Danger and Possibility in Queensland, 1890–1914; Yorick Smaal 13. Leery Sue Goes to the Show: Popular Performance, Sexuality and the Disorderly Girl; Melissa Bellanta 14. Savage Instincts, Civilizing Spaces: The Child, the Empire and the Public Park, c. 1880–1914; Ruth Colton 15. Memorializing Colonial Childhoods: From the Frontier to the Museum; Kate Darian-SmithReviewsThe volume makes a significant contribution in expanding our understanding of the British world that comprised of wider imperial networks and was built on mass migration of people. ... it is an informative read and is replete with useful references for anyone who is interested in the history of children and youth. (Soni von Rezensiert, H-Soz-Kult, hsozkult.de, June, 2017) This edited collection aims to bring together a historiography of the British world and of childhood and youth. ... This volume, co-edited by Shirleene Robinson and Simon Sleight, is therefore a welcome addition to interdisciplinary debates on the history of childhood and youth ... . the chapters each contain original and at times absorbing historical research that will engage historical geographers. (Sarah Mills, Journal of Historical Geography, Vol. 56, 2017) This fascinating collection offers exciting new knowledge about how children and childhoods were informed by and through their presence in the British world. ... This collection not only provides an important intervention into discussions of colonial and imperial history as well histories of children and childhood, but should also prompt a range of new research in these areas. (Kristine Moruzi, The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Vol. 10 (2), 2017) This wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection breaks new ground both geographically and methodologically. Its chapters present important new research on youth organizations, mobility, sexuality, public space, war, health, education, and more - this is a must-read for historians of childhood and youth, imperialism, and the British world. - Kristine Alexander, The University of Lethbridge, Canada This book expands knowledge by bridging between the fields of colonial and imperial history, and the history of childhood and youth. With contributions from some of the leading authorities now writing, this fascinating collection of essays covers a range of historical settings across the 'British world.' Its contributors grapple productively with the challenge of analyzing the patterns and processes through which children's lives were represented, and the ideological work performed by childhood. The collection builds upon an important, new research agenda by demonstrating the significance of histories of children and childhood to histories of the British Empire. - David Pomfret, University of Hong Kong This wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection breaks new ground both geographically and methodologically. Its chapters present important new research on youth organizations, mobility, sexuality, public space, war, health, education, and more - this is a must-read for historians of childhood and youth, imperialism, and the British world. - Kristine Alexander, The University of Lethbridge, Canada Author InformationShurlee Swain, Australian Catholic University in Melbourne, Australia. Suzanne Conway, Chestnut Hill College, USA. S.E. Duff, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Ellen Filor, Indepdendent Scholar, UK. Claire L. Halstead, University of Western Ontario, Canada. Timothy Nicholson, State University of New York at Delhi, USA. Satadru Sen, Queens College of the City of New York, USA. Mary Clare Martin, University of Greenwich, UK. Michelle J. Smith, Deakin University, Australia. Hilary Emmett, University of East Anglia, UK. Yorick Smaal, Griffith University, Australia. Melissa Bellanta, Australian Catholic University in Sydney, Australia. Ruth Colton, University of Manchester, UK. Kate Darian-Smith, University of Melbourne, Australia. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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