Managing Mobility : The British Imperial State and Global Migration, 1840-1860 / Philip Harling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harling, Philip, author.

Series:

Modern British histories

Modern British Histories Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--Colonies--Administration--History--19th century.

Great Britain.

Penal transportation--Great Britain--Colonies--History--19th century.

Penal transportation.

East Indians--Great Britain--Colonies--History--19th century.

East Indians.

Indentured servants--Great Britain--Colonies--History--19th century.

Indentured servants.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 285 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"In the first age of mass migration (1840-1860), the British imperial state intervened to ensure a racialised global economic order in the wake of Emancipation. Managing Mobility analyzes the large-scale movement of people as labor assets across the British Empire, considering the outcomes of these significant projects of social engineering"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction

'An awful remedy' : Irish famine migration and laissez-faire theodicy, 1846-1853

'A long train of moral evils' : the end of convict transportation and the rise of assisted emigration to Australia, c. 1837-1853

'The most perfect skeletons I ever saw' : 'liberated' African immigration and the free trade crisis in the British Caribbean, 1838-50

'A stranger to the facts will hardly credit the negligence' : Indian indentured immigration to the British Caribbean 1838-52

'Complaints are still made of inadequate clothing' : administrative muddle, Indian casualties, and the fortunes of William Humphreys

'A new epoch in the history of the experiment' : Indian Indentured Immigration to the British Caribbean II. 1852-70

Conclusion : migration, the imperial state, and the British empire in 1860

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781108996525

1108996523

9781108996723

1108996728

9781108983280

1108983286