English Diaspora in North America

Migration, Ethnicity and Association, 1730s–1950s

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

AvTanja Bueltmann,Donald MacRaild,Donald Macraild

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-11-24
Mått138 x 216 x 24 mm
Vikt762 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor416
FörlagManchester University Press
ISBN9781526103710

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Introduction: ethnic associationalism and an English diaspora1. The origins and development of the English diaspora in North America2. Elite associations: from local to transnational3. Independent and sectarian: working-class English associational culture 4. Ethnic activities and leisure cultures5. Charity and mutual aid: the pillars of English associations6. English, Scots and Germans compared: British and continental perspectives7. The making of a global diaspora ConclusionAppendix 1 North American cities and towns with St George’s societies and other English associationsAppendix 2 Lodges of the Order of the Sons of St George, 1885Appendix 3 Lodges of the Sons of England, 1896Index

‘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'It is clear that Bueltmann and MacRaild have lessened the invisibility of English associations in North America: they have provided a model of highly focused investigative research that will not need repeating.'Journal of British Studies

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