Empire, Migration and Identity in the British World

Kent Fedorowich is Reader in British Imperial and Commonwealth History at the University of the West of England, BristolAndrew S. Thompson is Professor of Modern History at the University of Exeter

The introduction and the accompanying spread of chapters in Empire, Migration and Identity offers a good exemplar of how the British World framework has adapted since its formulation more than ten years ago and where it stands today.

• General Editor’s introductionIntroduction: Mapping the contours of the British World: Empire, identity and migration – Kent Fedorowich and Andrew S Thompson1. Malthus and the Uses of British Emigration – Eric Richards2. ‘Sprung from ourselves’: British interpretations of mid-nineteenth-century racial demographics – Kathrin Levitan3. Religious nationalism and clerical emigrants to Australia, 1828–1900 – Hilary M Carey4. Resistance and accommodation in Christian mission: Welsh Presbyterianism in Sylhet, Eastern Bengal, 1860–1940 – Aled Jones5. Asian migration and the British World, c.1850–c.1914 – Rachel Bright6. Righting the record? British child migration: the case of the Middlemore Homes, 1872–1972 – Michele Langfield7. Travelling colonist: British emigration and the construction of Anglo-Canadian privilege – Lisa Chilton8. ‘Dear Grace…love Maidie’: Interpreting a migrant’s letters from Australia, 1926–67 – Stephen Constantine9. Staying on or going ‘home’? Settlers’ decisions upon Zambian Independence – Jo Duffy11. ‘I’m a Citizen of the World’: Late-twentieth-century British emigration and global identities - the end of the ‘British World’? – A. James Hammerton12. Multiculturalism, decolonisation and immigration: Integration policy in Britain and France after the Second World War – Eleanor Passmore and Andrew S ThompsonIndex