Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
Empire's daughters : Girlhood, whiteness and the colonial project - Elizabeth Dillenburg

Empire's daughters

Girlhood, whiteness and the colonial project

By: Elizabeth Dillenburg

Hardcover | 24 September 2024

At a Glance

Hardcover


$62.69

or 4 interest-free payments of $15.67 with

 or 

Ships in 7 to 10 business days

Empire's daughters traces the interconnected histories of girlhood, whiteness, and British colonialism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through the study of the Girls' Friendly Society. The society functioned as both a youth organisation and emigration society, making it especially valuable in examining girls' multifaceted participation with the empire. The book charts the emergence of the organisation during the late Victorian era through its height in the first decade of the twentieth century to its decline in the interwar years. Employing a multi-sited approach and using a range of sources, including correspondences, newsletters, and scrapbooks, the book uncovers the ways in which girls participated in the empire as migrants, settlers, laborers, and creators of colonial knowledge and also how they resisted these prescribed roles and challenged systems of colonial power.

An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

More in Colonialism & Imperialism

Looking from the North : Australian history from the top down - Henry Reynolds
Abandoned Women : Scottish Convicts Exiled Beyond the Seas - Lucy Frost
A Very Short History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict - Ilan Pappe
Batavia - Peter FitzSimons

Paperback

RRP $34.99

$28.75

18%
OFF
Orientalism : Western Conceptions of the Orient - Edward W. Said

RRP $24.99

$19.99

20%
OFF
Imperialism : The Highest Stage of Capitalism - Vladimir Lenin
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Omar El Akkad
Perfect Victims : And The Politics Of Appeal - Mohammed El-Kurd

RRP $27.99

$24.99

11%
OFF
The Sydney Wars : Conflict in the Early Colony, 1788-1817 - Stephen Gapps
England's Sea Empire, 1550-1642 : Routledge Revivals - David B. Quinn
The Anarchy : The Relentless Rise of the East India Company - William Dalrymple
Trauma Trails : Recreating Song Lines : Recreating Song Lines - Judy Atkinson
Discourse on Colonialism - Aime Cesaire

RRP $34.99

$27.99

20%
OFF
Reparations : Slavery and the Tyranny of Imaginary Guilt - Nigel Biggar
The Architecture of Modern Empire - Arundhati Roy

RRP $26.99

$22.99

15%
OFF