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The battle of Britishness [electronic resource] : migrant journeys, 1685 to the present / Tony Kushner.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 318 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1781704724
  • 9781781704721
  • 1526130386
  • 9781526130389
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 304.8/41 23
LOC classification:
  • JV7620 .K87 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
Part I. Introduction and contexts. Introduction -- 1. Britishness, entry and exclusion -- 2. Constructing migrant journeys -- Part II. Early journeys, 1685-1880. 3. Huguenot journeys: constructing the réfugiés -- 4. Volga Germans in the late nineteenth century: from refugees to foreign paupers -- Part III. The Nazi era. 5. Constructing (another) ideal refugee journey: the Kinder -- 6. The St Louis and after: refugee journeys without end? -- Part IV. Colonial and postcolonial journeys. 7. The Empire Windrush: the making of an iconic British journey -- 8. Stowaways and others: racism and alternative journeys into Britishness -- Part V. Conclusions. 9. Britishness and the nature of migrant journeys.
Summary: Analyzing the history and memory of migrant journeys, covering not only the response of politicians and the public but also literary and artistic representations, then and now, Kushner's volume sheds new light on the nature and construction of Britishness from the early modern era onwards.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-312) and index.

Part I. Introduction and contexts. Introduction -- 1. Britishness, entry and exclusion -- 2. Constructing migrant journeys -- Part II. Early journeys, 1685-1880. 3. Huguenot journeys: constructing the réfugiés -- 4. Volga Germans in the late nineteenth century: from refugees to foreign paupers -- Part III. The Nazi era. 5. Constructing (another) ideal refugee journey: the Kinder -- 6. The St Louis and after: refugee journeys without end? -- Part IV. Colonial and postcolonial journeys. 7. The Empire Windrush: the making of an iconic British journey -- 8. Stowaways and others: racism and alternative journeys into Britishness -- Part V. Conclusions. 9. Britishness and the nature of migrant journeys.

Analyzing the history and memory of migrant journeys, covering not only the response of politicians and the public but also literary and artistic representations, then and now, Kushner's volume sheds new light on the nature and construction of Britishness from the early modern era onwards.

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