Chapter 1 Introduction: Education and Empire: Children, Race and Humanitarianism in the British Settler Colonies

Chapter 2 ‘The Gift of Education’: Emancipation and Government Education in the West Indies, Britain and Beyond

Chapter 4 ‘Forgotten and Neglected’: Settlers, Government and Africans’ Education in Natal

Chapter 5 A Useful Education: Humanitarianism, Settler Colonialism and Industrial Schools in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa

Chapter 6 Researching Education: Florence Nightingale, British Imperialism and Colonial Schools

Chapter 7 Education and Obligation: Compulsory Schooling, Childhood and the Family

Chapter 8 Conclusion: The ‘Chief Blessing of Civilisation, the Benefit of Education’