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Imperial heartland : immigration, working-class culture, and everyday tolerance, 1917-1947 / by David Holland

Cambridge ; New York ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore : Cambridge University Press, 2023

xiv, 355 Seiten : Illustrationen, Karten

Englisch

Sheffield : the steel city -- The migration networks of South Asian immigrants in the Sheffield area -- Working lives -- Marriage, belonging and tolerance in 'the era of moral condemnation' -- Empire, racism and everyday tolerance

Includes bibliographical references

Erscheint auch als: Holland, David (Researcher of modern British history) : Imperial heartland. - Cambridge; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023 (Online-Ausgabe)

978-1-009-21619-7 (hardback); 1-009-21619-8 ; 978-1-009-21620-3 (paperback); 1-009-21620-1

978-1-009-21621-0 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

DA690.S54

305.891409428/210904 ; 305.891409428210904     Ähnliche Literatur

Fachinformationsdienst(e): FID-SUEDASIEN-DE-16

LOC-SH: South Asians -- England -- Sheffield -- History -- 20th century ; Immigrants -- England -- Sheffield -- History -- 20th century ; Sheffield (England) -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century ; Sheffield (England) -- Race relations ; Sheffield (England) -- Social conditions

20th century ; Erste Hälfte 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1950 n. Chr.) ; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 ; Arbeitsmodelle und -praxis ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Workplace Culture ; Colonialism & imperialism ; Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies ; Kolonialismus und Imperialismus ; Migration, Einwanderung und Auswanderung ; Migration, immigration & emigration ; POL045000 ; Rassismus und Rassendiskriminierung ; SOC070000 ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes ; Social classes ; Social discrimination & inequality ; Soziale Schichten ; Working patterns & practices

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