Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: The World in Miniature....Pages 1-23
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
A Motherly Concern for Children: Invocations of Queen Victoria in Imperial Child Rescue Literature....Pages 27-40
Ayah, Caregiver to Anglo-Indian Children, c. 1750–1947....Pages 41-58
Babies of the Empire: Science, Nation and Truby King’s Mothercraft in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa....Pages 59-73
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
‘He is hardened to the climate & a little bleached by it’s [sic] influence’: Imperial Childhoods in Scotland and Madras, c. 1800–1830....Pages 77-91
‘Dear Mummy and Daddy’: Reading Wartime Letters from British Children Evacuated to Canada During the Second World War....Pages 92-108
East African Students in a (Post-)Imperial World....Pages 109-126
Front Matter....Pages 127-127
Resistance and Race: Aboriginal Child Workers in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Australia....Pages 129-143
Health, Race and Family in Colonial Bengal....Pages 144-160
Race, Indigeneity and the Baden-Powell Girl Guides: Age, Gender and the British World, 1908–1920....Pages 161-179
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
Transforming Narratives of Colonial Danger: Imagining the Environments of New Zealand and Australia in Children’s Literature, 1862–1899....Pages 183-200
The ‘Willful’ Girl in the Anglo-World: Sentimental Heroines and Wild Colonial Girls, 1872–1923....Pages 201-217
Front Matter....Pages 219-219
Boys and Homosex: Danger and Possibility in Queensland, 1890–1914....Pages 221-236
Leery Sue Goes to the Show: Popular Performance, Sexuality and the Disorderly Girl....Pages 237-251
Front Matter....Pages 253-253
Savage Instincts, Civilizing Spaces: The Child, the Empire and the Public Park, c. 1880–1914....Pages 255-270
Memorializing Colonial Childhoods: From the Frontier to the Museum....Pages 271-289
Back Matter....Pages 290-328