Locating the English Diaspora, 1500-2010
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
While the Scottish, Irish, German, Italian, Jewish, and Black diasporas are well known and much studied, there is virtual silence on the English. Why, then, is there no English diaspora? This international collection explores key issues about the nature and character of English identity during the creation of the cultures of the wider British world, including themes as wide-ranging as Yorkshire societies in New Zealand and St. George’s societies in Montreal, to Anglo-Saxonism in the Atlantic world and the English diaspora of the sixteenth century. The result is a lively volume that brings to light groundbreaking new conceptualizations.
Introduction. Locating the English Diaspora: Problems, Perspectives and Approaches
Tanja Bueltmann, David T. Gleeson and Donald M. MacRaild
1. Mythologies of Empire and the Earliest English Diasporas
Glyn Parry
2. The English Seventeenth Century in Colonial America: The Cultural Diaspora of English Republican Ideas
David Walker
3. Fox Hunting and Anglicization in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia
Doreen Skala
4. The Hidden English Diaspora in Nineteenth-Century America
William E. Van Vugt
5. An English Institution? The Colonial Church of England in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
Joe Hardwick
6. The Importance of Being English: English Ethnic Culture in Montreal, c. 1800–1864
Gillian I. Leitch
7. Anglo-Saxonism and the Racialization of the English Diaspora
Tanja Bueltmann
8. 'The Englishmen here are much disliked': Hostility towards English Immigrants in Early Twentieth-Century Toronto
Amy J. Lloyd
9. Cousin Jacks, New Chums and Ten Pound Poms: Locating New Zealand's English Diaspora
Brad Patterson
10. 'Cooked in true Yorkshire fashion': Regional Identity and English Association Life in New Zealand before the First World War
James Watson
11. Englishness and Cricket in South Africa during the Boer War
Dean Allen
12. An Englishman in New York? Celebrating Shakespeare in America, 1916
Monika Smialkowska
13. The Disappearance of the English: Why is there no "English Diaspora'?
Robert J. C. Young
Index
History: European History
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