Youth and empire [electronic resource] : trans-colonial childhoods in British and French Asia / David M. Pomfret

Author:: Pomfret, David M., 1973-
Published:: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]
Physical Description:: xi, 402 pages ; 24 cm
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Contents:

Introduction : childhood and the reordering of empire -- Tropical childhoods : health, hygiene and nature -- Cultural contagions : children in the colonial home -- Magic islands : children on display in colonialisms' cultures -- Trouble in fairyland : cultures of childhood in interwar Asia -- Intimate heights : children, nature and colonial urban planning -- Sick traffic : 'child slavery' and imperial networks -- Class reactions : education and colonial 'comings of age' -- Raising Eurasia : childhood, youth and the mixed race question.

Subject(s):

Children—Southeast Asia—Social conditions—19th century
Children—Southeast Asia—Social conditions—20th century
Children—Great Britain—Colonies—Social conditions
Children—France—Colonies—Social conditions
Great Britain—Colonies—Asia—Social conditions
France—Colonies—Asia—Social conditions

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Electronic books

ISBN:

9780804795173 (cloth : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-380) and index.

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