Global Migrants, Local Culture [electronic resource] : Natives and Newcomers in Provincial England, 1841-1939 /
Tabili, Laura.author.
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.
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Cover; Contents; List of Maps; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Migration and Cultural Change; 1 Aal Tegither, Like the Folks O'Sheels: Colonizers, Invaders, Settlers and Sojourners in the Making of an Industrial Town; 2 A Stable and Homogeneous Population? Overseas Migrants in South Shields, 1841-1901; 3 Migrants' Networks and Local People; 4 Moving, Staying, Coming, Going: Migrants and Remigrants in Provincial Britain; 5 Gentlemen of the Highest Character: Negotiating Inclusion with the People of South Shields; 6 His Wife Must Surely Know: Women and Migrants' Integration
7 Men of the World: Casualties of Empire Building8 I Give My Missus the 28 Shillings: Everyday Forms of Accommodation; Conclusion: Global Migrants in Provincial England; Appendix: Was the Referee Process Corrupt?; Notes; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Social history.
Ethnicity.
Great Britain—History.
Civilization—History.
History, Modern.
Economic history.
Social History.
Ethnicity Studies.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Cultural History.
Modern History.
Economic History.