British and Irish Diasporas - Societies, Cultures and IdeologiesPevná vazba
People from the British and Irish Isles have migrated to all corners of the globe for centuries. This volume of essays offers the first integrated study of the formation of diasporas from the islands…
Specifikacia British and Irish Diasporas - Societies, Cultures and IdeologiesPevná vazba
People from the British and Irish Isles have migrated to all corners of the globe for centuries. This volume of essays offers the first integrated study of the formation of diasporas from the islands of Ireland and Britain. It presents the reader with ways in which the examples and experiences of the constituent nations and peoples of those islands compare, as well as forming a critically discursive examination of the similarities, differences, tensions and possibilities of such an integrated approach.The mass movements discussed range widely, including English, Irish, Scots, Welsh, and also sub-national groups: the Cornish, people from manufacturing towns in the Midlands, and groups from remote parts of the Highlands, both Catholic and Protestant. Yet wherever they went, these migrants co-mingled, blended and blurred. In so doing, they created new identities as neo-Britons,
British Spies and Irish Rebels