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From Strangers to Citizens: The Integration of Immigrant Communities in Britain, Ireland and Colonial America, 1550-1750
Randolph Vigne (Ed.)
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Between 1550 and 1750 tens of thousands of immigrants, many of them religious refugees escaping persecution on the Continent, settled in Britain and its colonies, and in Ireland. They brought with them their formidable energies and talents and quickly assimilated themselves into the host society. The essays range from general considerations of trends towards integration in the immigrant communities to detailed case-studies of the movement into British society of individual immigrants; from studies of popular attitudes and government policy towards the newcomers to examinations of relations within the immigrant communities themselves and their structures for self-sufficiency. The immigrants' contributions to ... Read more
Between 1550 and 1750 tens of thousands of immigrants, many of them religious refugees escaping persecution on the Continent, settled in Britain and its colonies, and in Ireland. They brought with them their formidable energies and talents and quickly assimilated themselves into the host society. The essays range from general considerations of trends towards integration in the immigrant communities to detailed case-studies of the movement into British society of individual immigrants; from studies of popular attitudes and government policy towards the newcomers to examinations of relations within the immigrant communities themselves and their structures for self-sufficiency. The immigrants' contributions to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Number of pages
567
Condition
New
Number of Pages
567
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781902210865
SKU
V9781902210865
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99-1
About Randolph Vigne (Ed.)
Randolph Vigne MA (Oxon), Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, is a past President of the Huguenot Society, and currently General Editor of its publications. He has written and lectured widely on the history of the Huguenots of the diaspora. Charles Littleton received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan for his dissertation on the French Church in Elizabethan and ... Read more
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