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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together established scholars with a new generation of migration and transnational historians. Their work weaves together the ânewâ imperial and the ânewâ migration histories, and explores the interplay of migration within and between the local, regional, imperial, and transnational arenas. -- .
Trade ReviewThe introduction and the accompanying spread of chapters in Empire, Migration and Identity offers a good exemplar of how the British World framework has adapted since its formulation more than ten years ago and where it stands today. -- .
Table of ContentsGeneral 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
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