Robinson, Shirleene
Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World
1. Introduction: The World in Miniature
Simon Sleight, Shirleene Robinson
Part I. Children and Adults
2. A Motherly Concern for Children: Invocations of Queen Victoria in Imperial Child Rescue Literature
Shurlee Swain
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Suzanne Conway
4. Babies of the Empire: Science, Nation and Truby King’s Mothercraft in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa
S. E. Duff
Part II. Rites of Passage
5. ‘He is hardened to the climate & a little bleached by it’s [sic] influence’: Imperial Childhoods in Scotland and Madras, c. 1800–1830
Ellen Filor
6. ‘Dear Mummy and Daddy’: Reading Wartime Letters from British Children Evacuated to Canada During the Second World War
Claire L. Halstead
7. East African Students in a (Post-)Imperial World
Timothy Nicholson
Part III. Indigenous Experiences
8. Resistance and Race: Aboriginal Child Workers in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Australia
Shirleene Robinson
9. Health, Race and Family in Colonial Bengal
Satadru Sen
10. Race, Indigeneity and the Baden-Powell Girl Guides: Age, Gender and the British World, 1908–1920
Mary Clare Martin
Part IV. Literary Childhoods
11. Transforming Narratives of Colonial Danger: Imagining the Environments of New Zealand and Australia in Children’s Literature, 1862–1899
Michelle J. Smith
12. The ‘Willful’ Girl in the Anglo-World: Sentimental Heroines and Wild Colonial Girls, 1872–1923
Hilary Emmett
Part V. Youth and Sexuality
13. Boys and Homosex: Danger and Possibility in Queensland, 1890–1914
Yorick Smaal
14. Leery Sue Goes to the Show: Popular Performance, Sexuality and the Disorderly Girl
Melissa Bellanta
Part VI. Children’s Empires and Material Cultures
15. Savage Instincts, Civilizing Spaces: The Child, the Empire and the Public Park, c. 1880–1914
Ruth Colton
16. Memorializing Colonial Childhoods: From the Frontier to the Museum
Kate Darian-Smith
Keywords: History, Cultural History, History of Britain and Ireland, Imperialism and Colonialism, Social History, World History, Global and Transnational History
- Editor
- Robinson, Shirleene
- Sleight, Simon
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2016
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood
- Page amount
- 341 pages
- Category
- History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137489418
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-137-48940-1