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the British imperial state and global migration, 1840-1860
1 online resource (x, 286 pages) : illustrations
"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"--
Introduction -- 'An awful remedy' : Irish famine migration and laissez-faire theodicy, 1846-1853 -- 'A long train of moral evils' : the end of convict transportation and the rise of assisted emigration to Australia, c. 1837-1853 -- 'The most perfect skeletons I ever saw' : 'liberated' African immigration and the free trade crisis in the British Caribbean, 1838-50 -- 'A stranger to the facts will hardly credit the negligence' : Indian indentured immigration to the British Caribbean 1838-52 -- 'Complaints are still made of inadequate clothing' : administrative muddle, Indian casualties, and the fortunes of William Humphreys -- '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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024