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Youth and Empire : Trans-Colonial Childhoods in British and French Asia.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (417 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780804796866
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Youth and EmpireDDC classification:
  • 305.230959/09034
LOC classification:
  • HQ792
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: Childhood and the Reordering of Empire -- 2. Tropical Childhoods: Health, Hygiene and Nature -- 3. Cultural Contagions: Children in the Colonial Home -- 4. Magic Islands: Children on Display in Colonialisms' Cultures -- 5. Trouble in Fairyland: Cultures of Childhood in Interwar Asia -- 6. Intimate Heights: Children, Nature and Colonial Urban Planning -- 7. Sick Traffic: 'Child Slavery' and Imperial Networks -- 8. Class Reactions: Education and Colonial 'Comings of Age' -- 9. Raising Eurasia: Childhood, Youth and the Mixed-Race Question -- 10. Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Focusing upon centers of British and French colonial rule in Asia this book examines the emergence of childhood and youth as a central historical force in the global history of empire in the twentieth century.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: Childhood and the Reordering of Empire -- 2. Tropical Childhoods: Health, Hygiene and Nature -- 3. Cultural Contagions: Children in the Colonial Home -- 4. Magic Islands: Children on Display in Colonialisms' Cultures -- 5. Trouble in Fairyland: Cultures of Childhood in Interwar Asia -- 6. Intimate Heights: Children, Nature and Colonial Urban Planning -- 7. Sick Traffic: 'Child Slavery' and Imperial Networks -- 8. Class Reactions: Education and Colonial 'Comings of Age' -- 9. Raising Eurasia: Childhood, Youth and the Mixed-Race Question -- 10. Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Focusing upon centers of British and French colonial rule in Asia this book examines the emergence of childhood and youth as a central historical force in the global history of empire in the twentieth century.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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