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020			_a9781139649582 (ebook)
020			_z9781107041387 (hardback)
020			_z9781316620304 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP _dBD-SySUS.
050	0	0	_aHV751.A6 _bB66 2014
082	0	0	_a362.709171/24109041 _223
100	1		_aBoucher, Ellen, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aEmpire's Children : _bChild Emigration, Welfare, and the Decline of the British World, 1869–1967 / _cEllen Boucher.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2014.
300			_a1 online resource (306 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aBetween 1869 and 1967, government-funded British charities sent nearly 100,000 British children to start new lives in the settler empire. This pioneering study tells the story of the rise and fall of child emigration to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Southern Rhodesia. In the mid-Victorian period, the book reveals, the concept of a global British race had a profound impact on the practice of charity work, the evolution of child welfare, and the experiences of poor children. During the twentieth century, however, rising nationalism in the dominions, alongside the emergence of new, psychological theories of child welfare, eroded faith in the 'British world' and brought child emigration into question. Combining archival sources with original oral histories, Empire's Children not only explores the powerful influence of empire on child-centered social policy, it also uncovers how the lives of ordinary children and families were forever transformed by imperial forces and settler nationalism.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107041387
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139649582
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c37014 _d37014