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Empire's Children - Child Emigration, Welfare, and the Decline of the British World, 1869-1967 (Hardcover, New)
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Empire's Children - Child Emigration, Welfare, and the Decline of the British World, 1869-1967 (Hardcover, New)
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Between 1869 and 1967, government-funded British charities sent
nearly 100,000 British children to start new lives in the settler
empire. This pioneering study tells the story of the rise and fall
of child emigration to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Southern
Rhodesia. In the mid-Victorian period, the book reveals, the
concept of a global British race had a profound impact on the
practice of charity work, the evolution of child welfare, and the
experiences of poor children. During the twentieth century,
however, rising nationalism in the dominions, alongside the
emergence of new, psychological theories of child welfare, eroded
faith in the 'British world' and brought child emigration into
question. Combining archival sources with original oral histories,
Empire's Children not only explores the powerful influence of
empire on child-centered social policy, it also uncovers how the
lives of ordinary children and families were forever transformed by
imperial forces and settler nationalism.
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