Managing mobility : the British imperial state and global migration, 1840-1860 /
"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 t...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2024.
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| Series: | Modern British histories.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.