Empire, Migration and Identity in the British World

Informationen zum Autor Kent Fedorowich is Reader in British Imperial and Commonwealth History at the University of the West of England, Bristol Klappentext This volume brings together established scholars with a new generation of migration and transnational historians. Their work weaves together the 'new' imperial and the 'new' migration histories, and explores the interplay of migration within and between the local, regional, imperial, and transnational arenas. Zusammenfassung This volume brings together established scholars with a new generation of migration and transnational historians. Their work weaves together the ‘new’ imperial and the ‘new’ migration histories, and explores the interplay of migration within and between the local, regional, imperial, and transnational arenas. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis General Editor's introductionIntroduction: Mapping the contours of the British World: Empire, identity and migration - Kent Fedorowich and Andrew S Thompson1. Malthus and the Uses of British Emigration - Eric Richards2. 'Sprung from ourselves': British interpretations of mid-nineteenth-century racial demographics - Kathrin Levitan3. Religious nationalism and clerical emigrants to Australia, 1828-1900 - Hilary M Carey4. Resistance and accommodation in Christian mission: Welsh Presbyterianism in Sylhet, Eastern Bengal, 1860-1940 - Aled Jones5. Asian migration and the British World, c.1850-c.1914 - Rachel Bright6. Righting the record? British child migration: the case of the Middlemore Homes, 1872-1972 - Michele Langfield7. Travelling colonist: British emigration and the construction of Anglo-Canadian privilege - Lisa Chilton8. 'Dear Grace...love Maidie': Interpreting a migrant's letters from Australia, 1926-67 - Stephen Constantine9. Staying on or going 'home'? Settlers' decisions upon Zambian Independence - Jo Duffy11. 'I'm a Citizen of the World': Late-twentieth-century British emigration and global identities - the end of the 'British World'? - A. James Hammerton12. Multiculturalism, decolonisation and immigration: Integration policy in Britain and France after the Second World War - Eleanor Passmore and Andrew S ThompsonIndex...

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• Authors: Kent Fedorowich, Kent Thompson Fedorowich, Andrew S Thompson, Andrew S. Thompson
• Assisted by: Kent Fedorowich (Editor), Fedorowich Kent (Editor), Andrew Thompson (Editor), Andrew S. Thompson (Editor), Thompson Andrew (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.01.2017
• EAN: 9781526106704
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-0670-4
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Studies in Imperialism; Studies in Imperialism Mup; Studies in Imperialism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, British Empire, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Colonialism & imperialism, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Colonialism and imperialism, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples