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Empire's children : child emigration, welfare, and the decline of the British world, 1869-1967 / Ellen Boucher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boucher, Ellen, 1978- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Child welfare--Colonies--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Child welfare.
- Colonies.
- Emigration and immigration.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Unaccompanied immigrant children--Colonies--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Unaccompanied immigrant children.
- Great Britain--Colonies--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- Group identity--History--Colonies--Great Britain--20th century.
- Group identity.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 292 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- Contents:
- Poverty and possibility in the era of Greater Britain
- Developing Empire, building children
- Upholding the banner of white Australia
- "Defective" boys and "problem" girls: selection standards in 1930s Australia and Southern Rhodesia
- From imperial child welfare to national childhoods
- Growing up in the twilight of Empire
- Conclusion: the problem of post-imperial belonging.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107041387
- 1107041384
- OCLC:
- 862066432
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