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Agents of Empire : British Female Migration to Canada and Australia, 1860-1930.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Gender and History SeriesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (259 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442685499
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Agents of EmpireDDC classification:
  • 305.48/821071
LOC classification:
  • JV7284.C455 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 'With This Sign I Conquer': Middle-Class Female Emigrators and the Management of Imperial Migration -- 2 Safe Passage: Narratives of Women in Transit -- 3 'Grit and Grace': A New Class of Women for the Colonies -- 4 Letters 'Home': Female Emigrants and the Imperial Family of Women -- 5 Welcoming Women: Reception Work in Canada and Australia -- 6 Domesticating Canberra: The Federal Capital Commission and the Domestic-Servant Project -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Illustrations.
Summary: Agents of Empirehighlights the aims and methods behind the emigrators' work, as well as the implications and ramifications of their long-term engagement with this imperialistic feminizing project.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 'With This Sign I Conquer': Middle-Class Female Emigrators and the Management of Imperial Migration -- 2 Safe Passage: Narratives of Women in Transit -- 3 'Grit and Grace': A New Class of Women for the Colonies -- 4 Letters 'Home': Female Emigrants and the Imperial Family of Women -- 5 Welcoming Women: Reception Work in Canada and Australia -- 6 Domesticating Canberra: The Federal Capital Commission and the Domestic-Servant Project -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Illustrations.

Agents of Empirehighlights the aims and methods behind the emigrators' work, as well as the implications and ramifications of their long-term engagement with this imperialistic feminizing project.

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