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Children and Empire

Edited by Cheryl M. Cassidy; Andrea Kaston Tange

  • Published: 14 Dec 2012
  • DOI: 10.4324/9780415578370
  • Set ISBN: 978-0-41557-837-0

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Empire's Children at Home The Domestic Impact of a Presence Abroad

The Children and Empire collection is predicated on the notion that imperial progress and nineteenth-century childhood were deeply interdependent. As our first three volumes have shown, building strong empires required not only military force and political conquest; it also necessitated carefully managing children’s lives around the world in order to ensure the successful spread of British and American cultural norms. At their most basic, colonial endeavors attempted to establish habitable, familiar domestic spaces in new locales. Because children were taken as a vital marker of the success of domestic establishments, imperial efforts frequently sought to impose British and American narratives of childhood onto the people of other cultures.

Volume Contents

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    Front Matter
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    Introduction By Andrea Kaston Tange
  • Domestic Empires
    • Americas
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        Narrative of the tragical death of Mr. Darius Barber, and his seven children: who were inhumanly butchered by the Indians, in Camden County, Georgia, January 26, 1818: to which is added an account of the captivity and sufferings of Mrs. Barber, Boston: Shaw and Shoemaker, 1818, pp. 1–24. By Eunice Barber
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        “Baby Footprints in the Slums,” in Henry Clay Trumbull (ed.) Child Life in Many Lands, New York: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1903, pp. 23–32. By Maud Ballington Booth
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        “A Few Words about American Slave Children,” The Child’s Anti- Slavery Book, New York: Carleton and Porter, 1858, pp. 9–16. By Julia Colman; Matilda G. Thompson; Methodist Episcopal Church, Sunday School Union
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        127
        “A Brief Notice of the Aztec Race, Followed by a Description of the So- Called Aztec Children Exhibited on the Occasion,” Journal of the Ethnological Society of London (1848–1856) 4, 1856, pp. 128–37. By Richard Cull; Richard Owen
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        128
        “We Wish To Present the Friends of the Poor African, with a Recent Advertisement of the Sale of a Negro Child, Taken from the Supplement to the Royal Jamaica Gazette of August 1st, 1827,” London: Howlett and Brimmer, 1827. By Joseph Delpratt
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        129
        “Child Life in Alaska,” in Henry Clay Trumbull (ed.) Child Life in Many Lands, New York: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1903, pp. 197–203. Edited by Mary C. Devore
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        130
        “Child Life among the American Indians,” in Henry Clay Trumbull (ed.) Child Life in Many Lands, New York: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1903, pp. 51–6. By Elaine Goodale Eastman
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        131
        “The Indian Child and His Toys,” Wide World Magazine II, December, 1898, pp. 315–20. By A. H. Dickerman; E. A. Davis
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        132
        “Games of Teton Dakota Children,” American Anthropologist 4. 4, 1891, pp. 329–32. By J. Owen Dorsey
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        133
        “Glimpses of Child-Life among the Omaha Tribe of Indians,” The Journal of American Folklore 1. 2, 1888, pp. 115–18. By Alice C. Fletcher
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        134
        “The Children of the Road,” Atlantic Monthly 77. 459, January 1896, pp. 58–71. By Josiah Flynt
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        135
        An Autobiography: The Story of the Lord’s Dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith, the colored evangelist; containing an account of her life work of faith, and her travels in America, England, Ireland, Scotland, India and Africa, as an independent missionary, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1896, pp. 1–19. Edited by Amanda Smith
    • Great Britain
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        Juvenile Delinquents: Their Condition and Treatment, London: W. & F. G. Cash, 1853, pp. 15–19. By Mary Carpenter
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        137
        “The Gipsy Babes,” in The Works of Mrs. Sherwood, vol. VII, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1834, pp. 321–48. By Mary Martha Sherwood
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        138
        “Our Gipsies, and Their Children,” London Society 47, 1885, pp. 33–42. By George Smith
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        139
        Gipsy Life: Being an Account of Our Gipsies and Their Children, London: Haughton & Co., 1880, frontispiece, dedication, list of illustrations, and pp. 48, 118, 170, 277. By George Smith
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        140
        London Street Arabs, London: Cassell & Co., 1890, pp. 5–12, plus assorted illustrations. By H. M. Stanley
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        141
        “The Crossing-Sweeper Nuisance,” Punch, January 26, 1856, p. 34.
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        “Caution!” Punch, July 28, 1855, p. 33.
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        143
        “A Dreadful Shock to the Nerves,” Punch 11, 1846, p. 26.
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        144
        “I’ve Nothing for You,” Punch 24, 1853, p. 215.
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        145
        “The Starving Children of Donegal,” The Irish Monthly 11. 118, 1883, pp. 213–15. By Una Taylor; Georgiana Fullerton
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        146
        “What Will Be Done With Him?” Punch, September 27, 1879, p. 137.
  • Paid Labor Forces
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      147
      “An Account of the Proceedings of the Society for Superseding the Necessity of Climbing Boys,” The Edinburgh Review or Critical Journal 32, October 1819, pp. 309–20.
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      148
      Society for Superseding the Necessity of Climbing Boys, “The Scandiscope,” 1829.
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      149
      “Infant Chimney-Sweepers,” Good Words XL, October 1899, pp. 668–70. By J. A. Dron
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      150
      “The Canal Boats Act, 1877,” The British Medical Journal, December 27, 1879, p. 1046. By Benjamin Browning
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      151
      “Cruelty to Children,” The North American Review 137. 320, 1883, pp. 68–75. By Elbridge T. Gerry
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      152
      “Box Making” and “Canal Life,” in The Cry of the Children, London: James Bowden, 1898, pp. 9–21, 75–85. By Frank Hird
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      153
      “School Children as Wage Earners,” Nineteenth Century 42, August 1897, pp. 235–44. By Edith F. Hogg
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      154
      “Children Street Sellers,” London Labour and the London Poor, vol. 1, London: Charles Griffin and Co., 1851, pp. 169–81. By Henry Mayhew
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      “A Symposium on White Child Labour Slavery,” Arena I, April 1890, pp. 589–95.
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      156
      “The Girl Ranchers of California,” The Cosmopolitan 28, April 1900, pp. 613–16. By W. F. Wade
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      The white slaves of free America: being an account of the sufferings, privations and hardships of the weary toilers in our great cities as recently exposed by Nell Nelson, of the Chicago Times, with special contributions by Judge T. M. Cooley, T. V. Powderly and others, Chicago: R. S. Peale & Co., 1888, pp. 50–4. By John T. McEnnis
  • The Post-Darwinian Child
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      “The Primitive Child,” The North American Review 159. 455, 1894, pp. 467–78. By Dr. Louis Robinson
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      159
      California Plants in Their Homes: A Botanical Reader for Children, Los Angeles: B. R. Baumgard and Co., 1898, pp. 17–24, 39–50. By Alice Merritt Davidson
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      “A Little Christmas Dream,” Punch, December 20, 1868, p. 272.
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      “A Young Darwinian,” Punch, May 1, 1880, p. 193.
  • Children, War, and Patriotism
    • Great Britain and the Commonwealth
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        “There is No Place Like Home,” Punch 16, 1849, pp. 29–30.
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        “Britannia Taking Care of the Soldiers’ Children,” Punch, March 4, 1854, p. 85.
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        164
        “An Opinion Backed by Something Like an Authority,” Punch, November 3, 1855, p. 183.
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        “Too Civil By Half,” Punch, November 7, 1857, p. 191.
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        “Boer Women and Children,” Canadian Magazine of Politics, Science, Art and Literature 19, 1902, pp. 31–3. By John A. Cooper
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        167
        “The Mortality among European Soldiers’ Children in India,” The British Medical Journal 2. 768, 1875, pp. 370–2.
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        “South Africa,” in Appletons’ Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1901, Third Series, vol. 6, New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1902, pp. 622–3.
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        “The South African Concentration Camps,” Northwestern Christian Advocate, February 12, 1902, p. 5.
    • United States
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        At Gettysburg or What a Girl Saw and Heard of the Battle, New York: W. Lake Borland, 1889, pp. 5–7, 21–30, 55–63 (excluding 59–60), 71–4. MRS. TILLIE  ALLEMAN  (PIERCE) By Tillie (Pierce) Alleman
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        A Drummer-Boy’s Diary: Comprising Four Years of Service with the Second Regiment Minnesota Veteran Volunteers, 1861 to 1865, St. Paul, Minn.: St. Paul Book and Stationary Company, 1889, pp. 1–17, 24–6, 31–6, 76–9, 83–6, 89–91. By William Bircher
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        A Confederate Girl’s Diary, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1913, frontispiece, pp. 23–8, 39–47, 335–8. By Sarah Morgan Dawson
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        “Children’s Side of War,” Journal of Education 48, July 21, 1898, pp. 79–83. By Mary H. Leonard