Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World

ISBN-13: 9781137489401 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 328 str.

Shirleene Robinson; Simon Sleight

Opis

Age was a critical factor in shaping imperial experience. Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World is the first collection to investigate the lives of - and meanings attached to - children and youth within the context of the British world. Children and young people, both British and Indigenous, locally-born and migrant, embodied the hopes and anxieties of British colonists. Recipients of the decidedly mixed blessings of British rule, they were at once petty imperialists, migrant 'pioneers', active resisters and dispossessed victims. This volume locates children, childhood and youth in broader social contexts and acknowledges young people as historical agents, rarely operating within situations of their choosing, but nonetheless shaping their own lives. Their experiences and the ways in which they were represented exemplify the processes through which 'Britishness' was expressed and contested across the globe. This history illuminates social and cultural aspects of young people's pasts and tests the possibilities (and limitations) of the British world paradigm.

Recenzje

"The book offers a rich and often surprising read. ... Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World will be s useful resource on all courses and research programmes concerned with its central themes, to enlarge students' and researchers' understanding and theorising of the great historical and international diversity of experience and interpretations of British Childhoods." (Priscilla Alderson, Children, Youth and Environments, Vol. 28 (3), 2018)

"The 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, 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 volume is a fascinating contribution to our understanding of the experience and conception of children, childhood and youth across the British world in this period. The impressive range of contributions illuminates the diversity of children's lives, prompts us to reconsider ideas about power and agency and highlights the exchange and flow of ideas across the global web of empire. These essays, both individually and collectively, enhance our knowledge and understanding of the histories of childhood and youth ... ." (Rosie Kennedy, Reviews in History, July 14, 2016)

"This collection makes interesting and important methodological contribution to the history of childhood while emphasizing the contribution of young people to broader imperial histories." (Laura Tisdall, Social History, Vol. 41 (04), 2016)

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Shurlee 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.