Empire, Migration and Identity CB

Herausgeber: Fedorowich, Kent; Thompson, Andrew

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Produktbeschreibung

This groundbreaking study opens up new avenues of research into the history of imperial mobility and migration, while also engaging with the contemporary debates generated by immigration, globalisation and transnationalism. The chief aim of the volume is to introduce the reader to new and emerging research in the broad field of 'imperial migration', and, in so doing, to show how this 'new' migration scholarship is helping to deepen and enrich our understanding of the concept of a British World. Based upon far-reaching primary, secondary and oral-based research in Australia, Canada, France, Great Britain, the United States and Zambia, the volume provides a more integrated and comparative approach to histories of migration and mobility within a British imperial world. The key focal point is the analysis of different types of imperial migration, its shifting patterns and processes, its socio-economic bases, and the transfer of ideas, identities, racial constructs and investment capital along the various networks established by British migrants throughout the empire, both formal and informal. The essays also explore the tensions between the national and imperial, and the transnational and global. In doing so, they reflect on notions of 'Britishness' as contested forms of identity. What emerges is a subtle yet far-reaching investigation of competing forms of empire and nation-building. This book will appeal to undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars interested in British imperial and migration history. It also offers important insights for students interested in the comparative dynamics and overlapping vectors of global, transnational and British World history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780719089565
• ISBN-10: 0719089565
• Artikelnr.: 37743287

Autorenporträt

Kent 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

Inhaltsangabe

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