Empire, education, and indigenous childhoods : nineteenth-century missionary infant schools in three British colonies / Helen May, Baljit Kaur, Larry Prochner
- Bib ID:
- 6810752
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- May, Helen, 1947-, author
- Description:
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- Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Limited, [2014]
- xxii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9781472409607 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 1472409604 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- Invalid ISBN:
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- 9781472409614
- 9781472409621
- Series:
- Ashgate studies in childhood, 1700 to the present.
- Full contents:
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- 1.A Civilizing Mission: Educational, Evangelical, and Missionary Endeavours
- 2.'Nurseries of discipline': Infant School Experiments in Britain
- 3.'A fine moral machinery': Infant Schools in British India
- 4.'Suited to the tastes and dispositions of Indian children': Infant Schools in Canada
- 5.'An alphabet on her coffin': Infant Schools for Māori Children in New Zealand
- 6.Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references ( pages 239-259) and index.
- Subject:
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- Indigenous children -- Education -- Canada -- History -- 19th century
- Indigenous children -- Education -- India -- History -- 19th century
- Indigenous children -- Education -- New Zealand -- History -- 19th century
- Indigenous children / Education / Canada / History / 19th century
- Indigenous children / Education / India / History / 19th century
- Indigenous children / Education / New Zealand / History / 19th century
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Asia
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- America
- Great Britain / Colonies / America
- Great Britain / Colonies / Asia
- Grossbritannien
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- Copyright:
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