Fedorowich / Unknown / Thompson Empire, migration and identity in the British World

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-5261-0321-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, Band 104, 336 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Imperialism

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Fedorowich, Kent

Thompson, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

General Editor’s introduction
Introduction: Mapping the contours of the British World: Empire, identity and migration – Kent Fedorowich and Andrew S Thompson
1. Malthus and the Uses of British Emigration – Eric Richards
2. ‘Sprung from ourselves’: British interpretations of mid-nineteenth-century racial demographics – Kathrin Levitan
3. Religious nationalism and clerical emigrants to Australia, 1828–1900 – Hilary M Carey
4. Resistance and accommodation in Christian mission: Welsh Presbyterianism in Sylhet, Eastern Bengal, 1860–1940 – Aled Jones
5. Asian migration and the British World, c.1850–c.1914 – Rachel Bright
6. Righting the record? British child migration: the case of the Middlemore Homes, 1872–1972 – Michele Langfield
7. Travelling colonist: British emigration and the construction of Anglo-Canadian privilege – Lisa Chilton
8. ‘Dear Grace…love Maidie’: Interpreting a migrant’s letters from Australia, 1926–67 – Stephen Constantine
9. Staying on or going ‘home’? Settlers’ decisions upon Zambian Independence – Jo Duffy
11. ‘I’m a Citizen of the World’: Late-twentieth-century British emigration and global identities - the end of the ‘British World’? – A. James Hammerton
12. Multiculturalism, decolonisation and immigration: Integration policy in Britain and France after the Second World War – Eleanor Passmore and Andrew S Thompson
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Fedorowich Kent:
Kent Fedorowich is Reader in British Imperial and Commonwealth History at the University of the West of England, BristolKent Fedorowich is Reader in British Imperial and Commonwealth History at the University of the West of England, Bristol

Andrew S. Thompson is Professor of Modern History at the University of Exeter