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Author | : Kristen McCabe Lashua |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2023-04-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000873064 |
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This is the first study to focus specifically on destitute children who became part of the early British Empire, uniting separate historiographies on poverty, childhood, global expansion, forced migration, bound labor, and law. Britons used their nascent empire to employ thousands of destitute children, launching an experiment in using plantations and ships as a solution for strains on London’s inadequate poor relief schemes. Starting with the settlement of Jamestown (1607) and ending with Britain’s participation in the Seven Years’ War (1756–1763), British children were sent all around the world. Authorities, parents, and the public fought against the men and women they called "spirits" and "kidnappers," who were reviled because they employed children in the same empire but without respecting the complexities surrounding children’s legal status when it came to questions of authority, consent, and self-determination. Children mattered to Britons: protecting their liberty became emblematic of protecting the liberty of Britons as a whole. Therefore, contests over the legal means of sending children abroad helped define what it meant to be British. This work is written for a wide audience, including scholars of early modern history, childhood, law, poverty, and empire.
Author | : Kristen McCabe Lashua |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : Forced migration |
ISBN | : 9780367507084 |
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"This is the first study to focus specifically on destitute children who became part of the early British Empire, uniting separate historiographies on poverty, childhood, global expansion, forced migration, bound labor, and law. Britons used their nascent empire to employ thousands of destitute children, launching an experiment in using plantations and ships as a solution for strains on London's inadequate poor relief schemes. Starting with the settlement of Jamestown (1607) and ending with Britain's participation in the Seven Years' War (1756-1763), British children were sent all around the world. Authorities, parents, and the public fought against the men and women they called "spirits" and "kidnappers," who were reviled because they employed children in the same empire but without respecting the complexities surrounding children's legal status when it came to questions of authority, consent, and self-determination. Children mattered to Britons: protecting their liberty became emblematic of protecting the liberty of Britons as a whole. Therefore, contests over the legal means of sending children abroad helped define what it meant to be British. This work is written for a wide audience, including scholars of early modern history, childhood, law, poverty, and empire"--
Author | : Ellen Boucher |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2014-03-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107041384 |
Download Empire's Children Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A definitive history of child emigration across the British Empire from the 1860s to its decline in the 1960s.
Author | : Philip Bean |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2018-03-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351171992 |
Download Lost Children of the Empire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Originally published in 1989. The extraordinary story of Britain’s child migrants is one of 350 years of shaming exploitation. Around 130,000 children, some just 3 or 4 years old, were shipped off to distant parts of the Empire, the last as recently as 1967. For Britain it was a cheap way of emptying children’s homes and populating the colonies with ‘good British stock’; for the colonies it was a source of cheap labour. Even after the Second World War around 10,000 children were transported to Australia – where many were subjected to at best uncaring abandonment, and at worst a regime of appalling cruelty. Lost Children of the Empire tells the remarkable story of the Child Migrants Trust, set up in 1987, to trace families and to help those involved to come to terms with what has happened. But nothing can explain away the connivance and irresponsibility of the governments and organisations involved in this inhuman chapter of British history.
Author | : Helen Berry |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Child labor |
ISBN | : 0198758480 |
Download Orphans of Empire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The story of what happened to the orphaned and abandoned children of the London Foundling Hospital, and the consequences of Georgian philanthropy. From serving Britain's growing global empire in the Royal Navy, to the suffering of child workers in the Industrial Revolution, the Foundling Hospital was no simple act of charity
Author | : Michael Farah |
Publisher | : Troubador Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2020-11-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1800468075 |
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Written entirely in the first person and fully based on accurate historical accounts, Michael Farah imagines how this royal family would have described the events of their extraordinary existence, scandals, loves, triumphs and tragedies.
Author | : Simon Sleight |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-11-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781137489401 |
Download Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Age was a critical factor in shaping imperial experience, yet it has not received any sustained scholarly attention. This pioneering interdisciplinary collection is the first to investigate the lives of children and young people and the construction of modes of childhood and youth within the British world.
Author | : M. Daphne Kutzer |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2002-09-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135578222 |
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First Published in 2001.
Author | : Susie Woo |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2019-11-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1479880531 |
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An intimate portrait of the postwar lives of Korean children and women Korean children and women are the forgotten population of a forgotten war. Yet during and after the Korean War, they were central to the projection of US military, cultural, and political dominance. Framed by War examines how the Korean orphan, GI baby, adoptee, birth mother, prostitute, and bride emerged at the heart of empire. Strained embodiments of war, they brought Americans into Korea and Koreans into America in ways that defined, and at times defied, US empire in the Pacific. What unfolded in Korea set the stage for US postwar power in the second half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. American destruction and humanitarianism, violence and care played out upon the bodies of Korean children and women. Framed by War traces the arc of intimate relations that served as these foundations. To suture a fragmented past, Susie Woo looks to US and South Korean government documents and military correspondence; US aid organization records; Korean orphanage registers; US and South Korean newspapers and magazines; and photographs, interviews, films, and performances. Integrating history with visual and cultural analysis, Woo chronicles how Americans went from knowing very little about Koreans to making them family, and how Korean children and women who did not choose war found ways to navigate its aftermath in South Korea, the United States, and spaces in between.
Author | : Ondina E. González |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780826334411 |
Download Raising an Empire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Raising an Empire takes readers on a journey into the world of children and childhood in early modern Ibero-America.