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Managing Mobility

Autor Philip Harling
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 noi 2024
In the first age of mass migration (1840–1860), the British imperial state intervened to ensure a racialised global economic order in the wake of Emancipation. Managing Mobility analyzes the large-scale movement of people as labor assets across the British Empire, considering the outcomes of these significant projects of social engineering.
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ISBN-13: 9781108833929
ISBN-10: 1108833926
Pagini: 296
Dimensiuni: 157 x 235 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Ediția:Nouă
Editura: Cambridge University Press

Notă biografică

Philip Harling is Professor of History at the University of Miami, specialising in the modern history of Britain and the British Empire. He is the author of The Waning of 'Old Corruption': The Politics of Economical Reform in Britain, 1779-1846 (1996) and The Modern British State: An Historical Introduction (2001).

Cuprins

Introduction; 1. 'An awful Remedy': Irish Famine migration and Laissez-Faire theodicy, 1846-1853; 2. 'A long Train of moral Evils': the end of convict transportation and the rise of assisted emigration to Australia, c. 1837-1853; 3. 'The most perfect skeletons I ever saw': 'liberated' African immigration and the free trade crisis in the British Caribbean, 1838-50; 4. 'A stranger to the facts will hardly credit the Negligence': Indian indentured immigration to the British Caribbean I. 1838-52; 5. 'Complaints are still made of inadequate clothing': administrative muddle, Indian casualties, and the fortunes of William Humphreys; 6. 'A new Epoch in the History of the experiment': Indian indentured immigration to the British Caribbean II. 1852-70; Conclusion: Migration, the imperial State, and the British Empire in 1860; Index.