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Zusatztext 'This book provides a valuable addition to the growing literature on migration to the UK during the height of British power.' - A.M. Wainwright! The University of Akron 'The book calls for a new scholarly perspective with regard to migrants and reveals blank spots within the existing research on migration to Great Britain.' - H-Soz-u-Kult Informationen zum Autor LAURA TABILI Associate Professor of Modern European History at the University of Arizona, USA, and author of We Ask for British Justice: Workers and Racial Difference in Late Imperial Britain . Her articles explore how European global expansion affected class, labour migration, interracial and exogamous marriages and the racialisation of masculinity. Klappentext Employing the first analysis of the entire population of any British town, this book examines how overseas migrants affected society and culture in South Shields near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Resituating Britain within global processes of migration and cultural change, it recasts British society pre-1940 as culturally and racially dynamic and diverse. Zusammenfassung Employing the first analysis of the entire population of any British town! this book examines how overseas migrants affected society and culture in South Shields near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Resituating Britain within global processes of migration and cultural change! it recasts British society pre-1940 as culturally and racially dynamic and diverse. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents List of Maps List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Migration & Cultural Change 'Aal Tegither, Like the Folks O'Sheels': Colonizers, Invaders, Settlers and Sojourners in the Making of an Industrial Town A Stable and Homogeneous Population? Overseas Migrants in South Shields, 1841-1901 Migrants' Networks & Local People Moving, Staying, Coming, Going: Migrants & Remigrants in Provincial Britain Gentlemen of the Highest Character: Negotiating Inclusion with the People of South Shields His Wife Must Surely Know: Women & Migrants' Integration Men of the World: Casualties of Empirebuilding I Give my Missus the Twenty-eight Shillings: Everyday Forms of Accommodation Conclusion: Global Migrants in Provincial England Appendix: Was the Referee Process Corrupt? Notes Index...
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Contents List of Maps List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Migration & Cultural Change 'Aal Tegither, Like the Folks O'Sheels': Colonizers, Invaders, Settlers and Sojourners in the Making of an Industrial Town A Stable and Homogeneous Population? Overseas Migrants in South Shields, 1841-1901 Migrants' Networks & Local People Moving, Staying, Coming, Going: Migrants & Remigrants in Provincial Britain Gentlemen of the Highest Character: Negotiating Inclusion with the People of South Shields His Wife Must Surely Know: Women & Migrants' Integration Men of the World: Casualties of Empirebuilding I Give my Missus the Twenty-eight Shillings: Everyday Forms of Accommodation Conclusion: Global Migrants in Provincial England Appendix: Was the Referee Process Corrupt? Notes Index
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'This book provides a valuable addition to the growing literature on migration to the UK during the height of British power.'
- A.M. Wainwright, The University of Akron
'The book calls for a new scholarly perspective with regard to migrants and reveals blank spots within the existing research on migration to Great Britain.' - H-Soz-u-Kult
