1st Edition
Atlantic Childhoods in Global Contexts
1. Atlantic childhood and youth in global context: reflections on the Global South Audra A. Diptee and David V. Trotman
2. Atlantic World mining, child labor, and the transnational construction of childhood in Imperial Britain in the mid-nineteenth century Danielle Kinsey
3. ‘‘A most horrifying maturity in crime’’: age, gender and juvenile delinquency in colonial Kenya during the Mau Mau Uprising Erin Bell
4. Global child-saving, transatlantic maternalism, and the pathologization of Caribbean childhood, 1930s-1940s Lara Putnam
5. The 1938-1939 Moyne Commission in Barbados: investigating the status of children Cecilia A. Green
6. Using child labor to save souls: the Basel Mission in colonial Ghana, 1855-1900 Catherine Koonar
7. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child 25 years later: Sara Austin reflects on the journey Audra A. Diptee
Biography
Audra A. Diptee is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She is the author of From Africa to Jamaica: The Making of an Atlantic Slave Society, 1776-1807 (2010). She is the Managing Director of the non-profit The History Watch Project, which brings together scholars committed to researching methods of critically applied history, and actively engaging with practitioners on matters related to the Global South.
David V. Trotman is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at York University, Toronto, Canada. He is the author of Crime in Trinidad: Conflict and Control in a Plantation Society (1987). He is currently working on two studies, one examining the social history of policing in the Eastern Caribbean between 1834 and 1962; and the other using a Trinidadian steel band group to look at the social tensions of a colonial urban space.
