Author : Ellen Boucher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 22,74 MB
Release : 2014-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1107041384
A definitive history of child emigration across the British Empire from the 1860s to its decline in the 1960s.
Author : Emmanuelle Saada
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 22,26 MB
Release : 2012-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0226733076
Operating at the intersection of history, anthropology, and law, this book reveals the unacknowledged but central role of race in the definition of French nationality. The author weaves together the perspectives of jurists, colonial officials, and more, and demonstrates why the French Empire cannot be analyzed in black-and-white terms.
Author : Philip Bean
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 13,91 MB
Release : 2018-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1351171992
Originally published in 1989. The extraordinary story of Britain’s child migrants is one of 350 years of shaming exploitation. Around 130,000 children, some just 3 or 4 years old, were shipped off to distant parts of the Empire, the last as recently as 1967. For Britain it was a cheap way of emptying children’s homes and populating the colonies with ‘good British stock’; for the colonies it was a source of cheap labour. Even after the Second World War around 10,000 children were transported to Australia – where many were subjected to at best uncaring abandonment, and at worst a regime of appalling cruelty. Lost Children of the Empire tells the remarkable story of the Child Migrants Trust, set up in 1987, to trace families and to help those involved to come to terms with what has happened. But nothing can explain away the connivance and irresponsibility of the governments and organisations involved in this inhuman chapter of British history.
Author : M. Daphne Kutzer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 29,48 MB
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1135578222
First Published in 2001.
Author : Claire Messud
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 19,41 MB
Release : 2007-06-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 030727666X
A bestselling, masterful novel about the intersections in the lives of three friends, now on the cusp of their thirties, making their way—and not—in New York City. There is beautiful, sophisticated Marina Thwaite—an “It” girl finishing her first book; the daughter of Murray Thwaite, celebrated intellectual and journalist—and her two closest friends from Brown, Danielle, a quietly appealing television producer, and Julius, a cash-strapped freelance critic. The delicious complications that arise among them become dangerous when Murray’s nephew, Frederick “Bootie” Tubb, an idealistic college dropout determined to make his mark, comes to town. As the skies darken, it is Bootie’s unexpected decisions—and their stunning, heartbreaking outcome—that will change each of their lives forever. A richly drawn, brilliantly observed novel of fate and fortune—of innocence and experience, seduction and self-invention; of ambition, including literary ambition; of glamour, disaster, and promise—The Emperor’s Children is a tour de force that brings to life a city, a generation, and the way we live in this moment. A New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year
Author : Brian Rouleau
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 15,93 MB
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1479804479
How the West was fun -- Serialized Impreialism -- Empire's amateurs -- Internationalist impulses -- Dollar diplomacy for the price of a few nickels -- Comic book cold war.
Author : Christian Laes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 27,3 MB
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0521897467
This book illuminates the lives of the 'forgotten' children of ancient Rome and draws parallels and contrasts with contemporary society.
Author : Raymond E. Feist
Publisher : Spectra
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 31,46 MB
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0525480153
An epic tale of adventure and intrigue, Daughter of the Empire is fantasy of the highest order by two of the most talented writers in the field today. Magic and murder engulf the realm of Kelewan. Fierce warlords ignite a bitter blood feud to enslave the empire of Tsuranuanni. While in the opulent Imperial courts, assassins and spy-master plot cunning and devious intrigues against the rightful heir. Now Mara, a young, untested Ruling lady, is called upon to lead her people in a heroic struggle for survival. But first she must rally an army of rebel warriors, form a pact with the alien cho-ja, and marry the son of a hated enemy. Only then can Mara face her most dangerous foe of all—in his own impregnable stronghold.
Author : Thomas Wiedemann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 25,75 MB
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 131774912X
There is little evidence to enable us to reconstruct what it felt like to be a child in the Roman world. We do, however, have ample evidence about the feelings and expectations that adults had for children over the centuries between the end of the Roman republic and late antiquity. Thomas Wiedemann draws on this evidence to describe a range of attitudes towards children in the classical period, identifying three areas where greater individuality was assigned to children: through political office-holding; through education; and, for Christians, through membership of the Church in baptism. These developments in both pagan and Christian practices reflect wider social changes in the Roman world during the first four centuries of the Christian era. Of obvious value to classicists, Adults and Children in the Roman Empire, first published in 1989, is also indispensable for anthropologists, and well as those interested in ecclesiastical and social history.
Author : Michael Farah
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,41 MB
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1800468075
Written entirely in the first person and fully based on accurate historical accounts, Michael Farah imagines how this royal family would have described the events of their extraordinary existence, scandals, loves, triumphs and tragedies.
