Marjory Harper, Stephen Constantine

Migration and Empire

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A unique comparative overview of the motives, means, and experiences of three main flows of empire migrants from the nineteenth century to the post-colonial period: UK migrants to white settler societies; non-white entrepreneurs and workers, relocating within Britain's empire; and empire immigrants coming into the UK, especially after 1945.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 600g
• ISBN-13: 9780198703365
• ISBN-10: 0198703368
• Artikelnr.: 40027997

Autorenporträt

Marjory Harper is Professor of History, University of Aberdeen, Stephen Constantine, Professor of Modern British History, Lancaster University

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction: The British Empire and Empire Migration, 1815 to the 1960s
2: Crossing the Atlantic: Migrants and Settlers in Canada
3: A Land of Perpetual Summer: Australian Experiences
4: Sheep and Sunshine: New Zealand
5: Africa South of the Sahara
6: Exile into Bondage? Non-White Migrants and Settlers
7: Immigration and the Heart of Empire
8: A Civilizing Influence? The Female Migrant
9: Children of the Poor: Child and Juvenile Migration
10: The Emigration Business
11: The Homecoming Migrant
12: Afterword: The Politics of Migration and the End of Empire