Managing Mobility

Philip Harling is Professor of History at the University of Miami, specialising in the modern history of Britain and the British Empire. He is the author of The Waning of 'Old Corruption': The Politics of Economical Reform in Britain, 1779–1846 (1996) and The Modern British State: An Historical Introduction (2001).

'Managing Mobility reconceptualises the role of the British state in pan-imperial emigration schemes in the middle of the nineteenth century. Through meticulous research on Irish famine emigration, liberated African resettlement, and Indian indentured labour, Philip Harling reveals rich and geographically expansive histories of state engineering that provide a new perspective on Victorian liberalism.' Clare Anderson, University of Leicester

• Introduction; 1. 'An awful Remedy': Irish Famine migration and Laissez-Faire theodicy, 1846–1853; 2. 'A long Train of moral Evils': the end of convict transportation and the rise of assisted emigration to Australia, c. 1837–1853; 3. 'The most perfect skeletons I ever saw': 'liberated' African immigration and the free trade crisis in the British Caribbean, 1838–50; 4. 'A stranger to the facts will hardly credit the Negligence': Indian indentured immigration to the British Caribbean I. 1838–52; 5. 'Complaints are still made of inadequate clothing': administrative muddle, Indian casualties, and the fortunes of William Humphreys; 6. '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; Index.