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.

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为帝国继承做准备：18 世纪英国的儿童、游戏和帝国

在考察在漫长的 18 世纪期间儿童如何与广义上的大英帝国交往时，本文考虑了一系列专门试图吸引儿童及其父母的材料，包括博物馆、印刷的少年文学作品和棋盘游戏。与更广阔的世界以及大英帝国接触的科目通常不是正规教育课程的重要组成部分，因此出现了一个非正式的材料和经验市场，以满足和推动父母对家庭补充教育的需求。这样的约会绝非偶然。相反，他们有意识地努力为中等和精英儿童提供关于他们将继承的更广阔世界和帝国的有用信息，