Emma Wordsworth
ekw34@cam.ac.uk
Country of residence: United Kingdom
Membership information
Member category: Postgraduate Member
Research interests
Disciplines: Economic History, Political History (incl. History of Parliament/Government), Intellectual History/History of Ideas, Imperial/Colonial/Post-Colonial History, Environmental History, Cultural & Social History
Time periods: 19th Century
Region: UK and Ireland, England, Eurasia, Far East (incl. Japan and China), South Asia
Geographic focus
England; India; Ottoman Asia Minor; Turkey; China
Additional information
Famine; famine relief; humanitarianism; hierarchy of sympathy; food security; charity; philanthropy; comparative history; global history; 1870s; British empire; Ottoman empire; Qing empire; agriculture; agrarian history; peasant studies; disasters; disaster relief; climate; drought; political economy; aid; development; irrigation; railways; industrialisation; international relations; 'civilising mission'; Evangelicalism; globalisation; global capitalism; racial capitalism; biopolitics; missionary history; informal empire; free trade; narrative framing; gender; women; children; orphans; Mansion-House; London; Church Missionary Society; London Missionary Society; China Inland Mission; New Poor Laws; Charity Organisation Society.