Preparing for an Imperial Inheritance

Children, Play, and Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10068409
AutoresTroy Bickham (0000-0001-6746-6604, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen60
Número3
Páginas658-688
Fecha de publicación2021-05-27
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of British Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0021-9371 • E-ISSN: 1545-6986
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/jbr.2021.56
OpenAlexW3168141268
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas50

In examining how children engaged with the British Empire, broadly defined, during the long eighteenth century, this article considers a range of materials, including museums, printed juvenile literature, and board games, that specifically attempted to attract children and their parents. Subjects that engaged with the wider world, and with it the British Empire, were typically not a significant part of formal education curricula, and so an informal marketplace of materials and experiences emerged both to satisfy and drive parental demand for supplementary education at home. Such engagements were no accident. Rather, they were a conscious effort to provide middling and elite children with what was considered useful information about the wider world and empire they would inherit, as well as opportunities to consider the moral implications and obligations of imperial rule, particularly with regard to African slavery

Ancient history · British Empire · Curriculum · Elite · Empire · Genealogy · Inheritance (genetic algorithm · Pedagogy · Political science · Sociology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law