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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harling, Philip (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
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.