The English diaspora in North America: Migration, ethnicity and association, 1730s–1950s - Hardcover

Bueltmann, Tanja; MacRaild, Donald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1526103710 ISBN 13: 9781526103710

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2016

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Tanja Bueltmann is Associate Professor in History at Northumbria University

Donald M. MacRaild is Professor of British and Irish History at University of Roehampton

Review:

‘This carefully researched and well-documented book will serve as a major source of reference for English ethnic associations in North America.’ D. A. Chekki, University of Winnipeg, Choice, September 2017

About this edition

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1526103710
• ISBN 13: 9781526103710
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 416