Empire's Children

ISBN-13: 9781316620304 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 306 str.

Ellen Boucher

Opis

A definitive history of child emigration across the British Empire from the 1860s to its decline in the 1960s.

Recenzje

'This is a well-researched and often moving book. It helps us to grasp the historically specific circumstances that made child emigration a political reality. And perhaps we are not so distant from these ways of thinking ourselves. As Boucher reminds us, current debates about the intercountry adoption underscore how the circulation of children (and controversies about the ethics therof) remains part of our present world.' Jordanna Bailkin, Victorian Studies

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Poverty and possibility in the era of Greater Britain; 2. Developing empire, building children; 3. Upholding the banner of white Australia; 4. 'Defective' boys and 'problem' girls: selection standards in 1930s Australia and Southern Rhodesia; 5. From Imperial child welfare to national childhoods; 6. Growing up in the twilight of empire; 7. Conclusion: the problem of postimperial belonging; Appendix; Bibliography.