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Migrant Britain : histories and historiographies : essays in honour of Colin Holmes /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Other Authors: Holmes, Colin, 1938- (honouree.), Craig-Norton, Jennifer (Editor), Hoffmann, Christhard, 1952- (Editor), Kushner, Tony (Antony Robin Jeremy) (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
Series:Routledge studies in radical history and politics.
Subjects:
Immigrants > Great Britain > History.
Immigrants > Cultural assimilation > Great Britain.
Great Britain > Emigration and immigration > History.
Great Britain > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Colin Holmes : an introduction / Tony Kushner
  • Uncovering traditions of intolerance : the earlier years of immigrants and minorities and the "Sheffield School" / Ken Lunn
  • Colin Holmes and the development of migrant and anti-migrant historiography / Tony Kushner
  • Looking beyond the nation state : the history of global migrations after 1800 / Tobias Brinkmann
  • Class vs. ethnicity : concepts of migrant historiographies in Britain and (West) Germany, 1970s-1990s / Christhard Hoffmann
  • From the profitable strangers to the residents of Banglatown : an exploration of the historiography of immigrants in London's East End / Anne Kershen
  • The Chinese connection : an historiography / Anne Witchard
  • The uniqueness of London / Panikos Panayi
  • Spaces of Black history / Caroline Bressei
  • Academic duty and communal obligation revisited / Geoffrey Alderman
  • Weaving Italian experience into the British immigration narrative / Wendy Ugolini
  • Jewish refugee historiography : moving beyond the celebratory / Jennifer Craig-Norton
  • We refugees re-defining Britain's East African Asians / Saima Nasar
  • Race and colour revisited : white immigrants in post-war Britain / Gavin Schaffer
  • Family misfortunes : gendered perspectives on West Indian migration, welfare policies and cultural racism in post Second World War Britain / Barbara Bush
  • Inside, outside, and in-between : shifting borders in British immigration and disease control / Krista Maglen
  • The evolving historiography of the extreme right in Britain / Graham Macklin
  • Gypsy/romani studies : a few reflections / David Mayall
  • The poorest, the most intractable, and the most permanent : the invisible 19th century Pole in Britain / Milosz Cybowski
  • History of Asians in Britain, 1600-1950 / Rozina Visram
  • The development of transmigrant historiography in Britain / Nick Evans
  • Underground Catholic networks in Ireland and Britain : the case of Ribbonism before the famine and after / Donald MacRaild and Kyle Hughes
  • The most varied, colourful, confusing hubub in the world : the East End, television and the documentary imagination, July 1939 / James Jordan
  • The Equiano effect : representativeness and early Black British migrant testimony / Ryan Hanley
  • Framing Polish migration to the UK, from the Second World war to EU expansion / Kathy Burrell
  • Afterword / Tony Kushner
  • Appendices: Colin Holmes : a life and career
  • Colin Holmes : publications
  • The Sheffield School : Colin Holmes postgraduate supervision
  • Colin Holmes interview with Alan Dein.