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  • English  (2)
  • London : Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books  (1)
  • New York : Cambridge University Press  (1)
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    The Best Are Leaving : Emigration and Post-War Irish Culture (2015)
    New York : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781107048409
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (232 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version The Best Are Leaving : Emigration and Post-War Irish Culture
    DDC: 304.809415
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Clair Wills's The Best Are Leaving is a study of representations of Irish emigrant culture and of Irish immigrants in Britain
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Part I Emigrants; Chapter 1 The Best Are Leaving; 'The Survival of the Unfittest'; 'The Moral Aspect of the Problem'; 'The Weakening of Our Nationality'; 'Luxurious Living and Modern Sanitation'; Chapter 2 Pink Witch; Toothpaste and Cosmetics; Toffs and the Poorer Type of Girl; 'Love and Things'; Part II Immigrants; Chapter 3 British Paddies; Ethnography and the Irish Male Immigrant; Turning a Shade Darker; Chapter 4 The Vanishing Irish
    Description / Table of Contents: The Deserving and the Undeserving PoorThe Bucklep; 'An Indefinably Natural Quality'; Chapter 5 Clay Is the Flesh; Afterword; Bibliography; Manuscripts; Television, Film and Radio; Newspapers, Journals and Magazines; Published Sources; Index
    Note: Description based upon print version of record
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    Lovers and strangers : an immigrant history of post-war Britain (2017)
    London : Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books
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    ISBN: 9781846147166
    Language: English
    Pages: xxii, 441 Seiten , Illustrationen , 24 cm
    DDC: 305.906912094109045
    RVK:
    HD 400
    Keywords: Immigrants History 20th century ; Immigrants Cultural assimilation 20th century ; History ; Immigrants History ; 20th century ; Great Britain ; Immigrants Cultural assimilation ; History ; 20th century ; Great Britain ; Emigration and immigration ; Immigrants ; Immigrants ; Immigrants ; Immigrants ; Great Britain ; Great Britain ; Great Britain ; History ; 1900-1999 ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 20th century ; History ; Great Britain History 20th century ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration ; History ; 20th century ; Great Britain History ; 20th century ; Großbritannien ; Einwanderer ; Soziale Integration ; Großbritannien ; Einwanderung ; Soziale Integration ; Geschichte 1945-2017
    Abstract: The battered and exhausted Britain of 1945 was desperate for workers - to rebuild, to fill the factories, to make the new NHS work. From all over the world and with many motives, thousands of individuals took the plunge. Most assumed they would spend just three or four years here, sending most of their pay back home, but instead large numbers stayed - and transformed the country. Drawing on an amazing array of unusual and surprising sources, Clair Wills' wonderful new book brings to life the incredible diversity and strangeness of the migrant experience. She introduces us to lovers, scroungers, dancers, homeowners, teachers, drinkers, carers and many more to show the opportunities and excitement as much as the humiliation and poverty that could be part of the new arrivals' experience. Irish, Bengalis, West Indians, Poles, Maltese, Punjabis and Cypriots battled to fit into an often shocked Britain and, to their own surprise, found themselves making permanent homes. As Britain picked itself up again in the 1950s migrants set about changing life in their own image, through music, clothing, food, religion, but also fighting racism and casual and not so casual violence. Lovers and Strangers is an extremely important book, one that is full of enjoyable surprises, giving a voice to a generation who had to deal with the reality of life surrounded by 'white strangers' in their new country
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