Education and Empire: Children, Race and Humanitarianism in the British Settler Colonies, 1833-1880

by Rebecca Swartz

This book tracks the changes in government involvement in Indigneous children's education over the nineteenth century, drawing on case studies from the Caribbean, Australia and South Africa. Schools were pivotal in the production and reproduction of racial difference in the colonies of settlement. Between 1833 and 1880, there were remarkable changes in thinking about education in Britain and the Empire with it increasingly seen as a government...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319959085
• ISBN13: 9783319959085
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"