David M. Pomfret
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780804795173
- eISBN:
- 9780804796866
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804795173.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Imperialism and Colonialism
The book confronts the history of childhood and youth for the light it can shed upon the history of empire more generally. It moves beyond conventional national or imperial frameworks and uses a ...
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The book confronts the history of childhood and youth for the light it can shed upon the history of empire more generally. It moves beyond conventional national or imperial frameworks and uses a comparative, trans-colonial approach focusing upon situated entanglements and networked interactions linking Asian centres under colonial rule with global processes. This volume examines children and childhood as both became a key focus of policy making, literary interactions and cultural representations in the commercial and administrative centres that burgeoned in Asia under British and French rule in the age of global empires. The book shows how, as settlers, expatriates, governments, international agencies and indigenous agents mobilised childhood to critique colonialism, children emerged at the heart of debates over the future of Europe's empires. It also provides insights into the lives of children who negotiated expectations that they live up to, or inhabit, certain visions of colonial childhood.Less
The book confronts the history of childhood and youth for the light it can shed upon the history of empire more generally. It moves beyond conventional national or imperial frameworks and uses a comparative, trans-colonial approach focusing upon situated entanglements and networked interactions linking Asian centres under colonial rule with global processes. This volume examines children and childhood as both became a key focus of policy making, literary interactions and cultural representations in the commercial and administrative centres that burgeoned in Asia under British and French rule in the age of global empires. The book shows how, as settlers, expatriates, governments, international agencies and indigenous agents mobilised childhood to critique colonialism, children emerged at the heart of debates over the future of Europe's empires. It also provides insights into the lives of children who negotiated expectations that they live up to, or inhabit, certain visions of colonial childhood.
David M. Pomfret
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780804795173
- eISBN:
- 9780804796866
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804795173.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Imperialism and Colonialism
T This introductory chapter discusses the main arguments of the book and sets out the advantages of an approach focusing upon youth and age relations to the history of empire. It describes the ...
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T This introductory chapter discusses the main arguments of the book and sets out the advantages of an approach focusing upon youth and age relations to the history of empire. It describes the presence of children in non-settlement colonies and why this constitutes an important focus for research. It elaborates the current state of imperial and colonial history, the history of childhood and youth and other related fields of research and sets out how this study will apply a comparative and transnational/trans-colonial perspective in a multi-sited approach to the subject matter. It sets out the rationale for the selection of the specific interconnected sites in East and South-East Asia that form the focus of this book, explaining the comparability of these key centres of British and French colonial rule in Asia, notably Hong Kong, Hanoi, Singapore and Saigon and the nature of their inter-connectedness.Less
T This introductory chapter discusses the main arguments of the book and sets out the advantages of an approach focusing upon youth and age relations to the history of empire. It describes the presence of children in non-settlement colonies and why this constitutes an important focus for research. It elaborates the current state of imperial and colonial history, the history of childhood and youth and other related fields of research and sets out how this study will apply a comparative and transnational/trans-colonial perspective in a multi-sited approach to the subject matter. It sets out the rationale for the selection of the specific interconnected sites in East and South-East Asia that form the focus of this book, explaining the comparability of these key centres of British and French colonial rule in Asia, notably Hong Kong, Hanoi, Singapore and Saigon and the nature of their inter-connectedness.
