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Bueltmann, Tanja and MacRaild, Donald (2016) English diaspora in North America: migration, ethnicity and association, 1730s–1950s. Other. Manchester University Press, Manchester.
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Ethnic associations were once vibrant features of societies, such as the United States and Canada, which attracted large numbers of immigrants. While the transplanted cultural lives of the Irish, Scots and continental Europeans have received much attention, the English are far less widely explored. It is assumed the English were not an ethnic community, that they lacked the alienating experiences associated with immigration and thus possessed few elements of diasporas. This deeply researched new book questions this assumption. It shows that English associations once were widespread, taking hold in colonial America, spreading to Canada and then encompassing all of the empire. Celebrating saints days, expressing pride in the monarch and national heroes, providing charity to the national poor, and forging mutual aid societies mutual, were all features of English life overseas. In fact, the English simply resembled other immigrant groups too much to be dismissed as the unproblematic, invisible immigrants.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Other) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | United States of America (USA); North America (USA & Canada); migration, immigration & emigration; social & cultural history; history of the Americas; British Americans; English; Civilization (British influences) |
| Subjects: | 900 History & geography > 970 History of North America |
| Department: | School of Social Sciences (to June 2021) School of Social Sciences and Professions |
| Depositing User: | Donald Macraild |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Jun 2019 08:57 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Jun 2019 08:57 |
| URI: | https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/id/eprint/4920 |
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