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Studies in imperialism

Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)

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Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : mapping the contours of the British world : empire, migration and identity / Kent Fedorowich and Andrew S. Thompson -- Malthus and the uses of British emigration / Eric Richards -- 'Sprung from ourselves' : British interpretations of mid-nineteenth-century racial demographics / Kathrin Levitan -- Religious nationalism and clerical emigrants to Australia, 1828-1900 / Hilary M. Carey -- Resistance and accommodation in Christian mission : Welsh Presbyterianism in Sylhet, Eastern Bengal, 1860-1940 / Aled Jones -- Asian migration and the British world, c. 1850-1914 / Rachel Bright -- Righting the record? British child migration : the case of the Middlemore Homes, 1872-1972 / Michele Langfield -- Travelling colonist : British emigration and the construction of Anglo-Canadian privilege / Lisa Chilton -- 'Dear Grace ... Love Madie' : interpreting a migrant's letters from Australia, 1926-27 / Stephen Constantine -- Staying on or going 'home'? Settlers' decisions upon Zambian independence / Jo Duffy -- 'I'm a citizen of the world' : late twentieth-century British emigration and global identities -- the end of the 'British world'? / A. James Hammerton -- Multiculturalism, decolonization and immigration : integration policy in Britain and France after the second world war / Eleanor Passmore and Andrew S. Thompson.

Summary

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.

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Print version record.

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Subject

Commonwealth

Commonwealth. (DE-601)106357867

National characteristics, British.

British -- Foreign countries -- History.

Group identity -- Great Britain.

Great Britain -- Colonies -- History.

Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration -- History.

Britanniques.

Britanniques -- Pays étrangers -- Histoire.

Identité collective -- Grande-Bretagne.

Grande-Bretagne -- Colonies -- Histoire.

HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.

British colonies. (OCoLC)fst01910374

British -- Foreign countries. (OCoLC)fst00839050

Emigration and immigration. (OCoLC)fst00908690

Group identity. (OCoLC)fst00948442

National characteristics, British. (OCoLC)fst01033379

Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623

Migration

Migration. (DE-601)105774456

Politische Identität. (DE-601)105708674

Großbritannien. (DE-601)104665513

Genre/Form

Electronic books.

History. (OCoLC)fst01411628

Added Author

Thompson, Andrew S. (Andrew Stuart), 1968- editor.

Fedorowich, Kent, 1959- editor.

Other Form:

Print version: 9780719089565 0719089565 (DLC) 2013388550 (OCoLC)827256496

ISBN

9781526103215

1526103214

9780719089565

0719089565

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