ISBN:
1283097346
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9780230307711
,
9780230291331
,
9781283097345
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 329 S.
,
Kt.
,
23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Global Migrants, Local Culture
DDC:
305.9/06912094287509034
Keywords:
Migrants History
;
Economic history
;
Electronic books
;
South Shields (England) Population
;
History
;
South Shields (England) Emigration and immigration
;
History
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-320) and index
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Maps; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Migration and Cultural Change; 1 Aal Tegither, Like the Folks O'Sheels: Colonizers, Invaders, Settlers and Sojourners in the Making of an Industrial Town; 2 A Stable and Homogeneous Population? Overseas Migrants in South Shields, 1841-1901; 3 Migrants' Networks and Local People; 4 Moving, Staying, Coming, Going: Migrants and Remigrants in Provincial Britain; 5 Gentlemen of the Highest Character: Negotiating Inclusion with the People of South Shields; 6 His Wife Must Surely Know: Women and Migrants' Integration
Description / Table of Contents:
7 Men of the World: Casualties of Empire Building8 I Give My Missus the 28 Shillings: Everyday Forms of Accommodation; Conclusion: Global Migrants in Provincial England; Appendix: Was the Referee Process Corrupt?; Notes; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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