Child, Nation, Race and Empire: Child Rescue Discourse, England, Canada and Australia, 1850-1915

by Margot Hillel and Shurlee Swain

Child, nation, race and empire is an innovative, inter-disciplinary, cross cultural study that contributes to understandings of both contemporary child welfare practices and the complex dynamics of empire.

It analyses the construction and transmission of nineteenth-century British child rescue ideology. Locating the origins of contemporary practice in the publications of the prominent English Child rescuers, Dr Barnardo, Thomas Bowman Stephenson,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719078946
• ISBN13: 9780719078941
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.3"