Global Migrants, Local Culture
Natives and Newcomers in Provincial England, 1841-1939
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
Published:1st Jan '11
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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.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.
'This book provides a valuable addition to the growing literature on migration to the UK during the height of British power.'
- A.M. Wainwright, The University of Akron
'The book calls for a new scholarly perspective with regard to migrants and reveals blank spots within the existing research on migration to Great Britain.' - H-Soz-u-Kult
ISBN: 9781349331970
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329 pages
1st ed. 2011