Working-class Britons played a crucial role in the pioneering
settlement and integration of South Asians in imperial Britain.
Using a host of new and neglected sources, Imperial Heartland
revises the history of early South Asian immigration to Britain,
focusing on the northern English city of Sheffield. Rather than
viewing immigration through the lens of inevitable conflict, this
study takes an alternative approach, situating mixed marriages and
inter-racial social networks centrally within the South Asian
settlement of modern Britain. Whilst acknowledging the episodic
racial conflict of the early inter-war period, David Holland
challenges assumptions that insurmountable barriers of race,
religion and culture existed between the British working classes
and non-white newcomers. Imperial Heartland closely examines the
reactions of working-class natives to these young South Asian men
and overturns our pre-conceptions that hostility to perceived
racial or national difference was an overriding pre-occupation of
working-class people during this period. Imperial Heartland
therefore offers a fresh and inspiring new perspective on the
social and cultural history of modern Britain.
General
Imprint: |
Cambridge UniversityPress
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Modern British Histories |
Release date: |
August 2023 |
Authors: |
David Holland
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Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
350 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-00-921619-7 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-00-921619-8 |
Barcode: |
9781009216197 |
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