عنوان

Children, childhood and youth in the British world /

(Number (ISBN

1137489413

(Number (ISBN

9781137489418

Erroneous ISBN

1137489405

Erroneous ISBN

9781137489401

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Title Proper

Children, childhood and youth in the British world /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Shirleene Robinson, Simon Sleight

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xiii, 328 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations.

Series Title

Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-314) and index

Text of Note

Introduction: The World in Miniature; Part I: Children and Adults; 1 A Motherly Concern for Children: Invocations of Queen Victoria in Imperial Child Rescue Literature; 2 Ayah, Caregiver to Anglo-Indian Children, c. 1750-1947; 3 Babies of the Empire: Science, Nation and Truby King's Mothercraft in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa; Part II: Rites of Passage; 4 'He is hardened to the climate & a little bleached by it's [sic] influence': Imperial Childhoods in Scotland and Madras, c. 1800-1830; 5 'Dear Mummy and Daddy': Reading Wartime Letters from British Children Evacuated to Canada During the Second World War6 East African Students in a (Post- )Imperial World; Part III: Indigenous Experiences; 7 Resistance and Race: Aboriginal Child Workers in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Australia; 8 Health, Race and Family in Colonial Bengal; 9 Race, Indigeneity and the Baden-Powell Girl Guides: Age, Gender and the British World, 1908-1920; Part IV: Literary Childhoods; 10 Transforming Narratives of Colonial Danger: Imagining the Environments of New Zealand and Australia in Children's Literature, 1862-189911 The 'Willful' Girl in the Anglo-World: Sentimental Heroines and Wild Colonial Girls, 1872-1923; Part V: Youth and Sexuality; 12 Boys and Homosex: Danger and Possibility in Queensland, 1890-1914; 13 Leery Sue Goes to the Show: Popular Performance, Sexuality and the Disorderly Girl ; Part VI: Children's Empires and Material Cultures; 14 Savage Instincts, Civilizing Spaces: The Child, the Empire and the Public Park, c. 1880-1914; 15 Memorializing Colonial Childhoods: From the Frontier to the Museum

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Text of Note

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

Title

Children, childhood and youth in the British world.

International Standard Book Number

9781137489401

British-- Colonization-- History.

Children-- Great Britain-- Colonies-- History.

Nationalism-- Great Britain-- Colonies-- History.

Youth-- Great Britain-- Colonies-- History.

Great Britain, Colonies, Social life and customs.

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SOC-- 020000

SOC-- 031000

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Edition

Class number

Book number

Robinson, Shirleene,1977-

Sleight, Simon

Ohio Library and Information Network.

Date of Transaction

20161111051349.9

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Electronic name

[Book]

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