ISBN:
9781009216210
,
9781009216197
,
9781009216203
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xiv, 355 pages)
,
digital, PDF file(s).
Series Statement:
Modern British histories
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.891409428/210904
Keywords:
South Asians History 20th century
;
Immigrants History 20th century
;
Sheffield (England) Emigration and immigration 20th century
;
History
;
Sheffield (England) Race relations
;
Sheffield (England) Social conditions
Abstract:
Working-class Britons played a crucial role in the pioneering settlement and integration of South Asians in imperial Britain. Using a host of new and neglected sources, Imperial Heartland revises the history of early South Asian immigration to Britain, focusing on the northern English city of Sheffield. Rather than viewing immigration through the lens of inevitable conflict, this study takes an alternative approach, situating mixed marriages and inter-racial social networks centrally within the South Asian settlement of modern Britain. Whilst acknowledging the episodic racial conflict of the early inter-war period, David Holland challenges assumptions that insurmountable barriers of race, religion and culture existed between the British working classes and non-white newcomers. Imperial Heartland closely examines the reactions of working-class natives to these young South Asian men and overturns our pre-conceptions that hostility to perceived racial or national difference was an overriding pre-occupation of working-class people during this period. Imperial Heartland therefore offers a fresh and inspiring new perspective on the social and cultural history of modern Britain.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Aug 2023)
DOI:
10.1017/9781009216210
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009216210
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