Children, childhood and youth in the British world
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Children, childhood and youth in the British world
（Palgrave studies in the history of childhood）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 290-314) and index
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Description
Age 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.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: 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-Smith
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