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This two-volume collection of articles on European migration during
the 19th and 20th centuries examines the motivations for migration,
drawing on the particular experience of Irish, German, Scottish,
Italian, Scandinavian and other European migrants, as well as those
who migrated to Europe, such as West Indian migrants into Britain.
The first volume examines the hostility faced by migrants, both in
their home countries and their countries of destination. The second
volume considers the contributions migrants have made to their host
countries, and compares the experiences of different migrant
groups. In addition, the continuing links between migrants and
their countries of origin is explored through a series of essays
and papers. Altogether there are 51 articles, dating from 1950 to
1994.
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Sabotage, murder, cover-ups. Just another day on the Moon. After 35
years of living on the Moon, cranky old oxygen farmer Millennium
Harrison has stumbled onto a hidden facility in the shadows of the
Slayton Ridge Exclusion Zone with a radiation leak and a deadly
secret. Mil's discovery leads to the death of a young astronaut,
sabotage, murder, and cover-ups that may go all the way to the
Chief Administrator of the space agency. Unfortunately, she happens
to be Mil's estranged daughter, busy trying to secure her own
legacy—the first international mission to Mars. With time ticking
down to a limited launch window, enemies, friends, and even family
may do anything to ensure the truth doesn't come out. Or will
history finally catch up with a deadly scheme that has the
potential to destroy the moon and eradicate all life on Earth? It
seems the planet's only hope is a cantankerous guy who never really
liked those people in the first place. For readers who enjoy 2001:
A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke, Artemis by Andy Weir, MoonFall
by Jack McDevitt.
An East End Legacy is a memorial volume for William J Fishman,
whose seminal works on the East End of London in the late
nineteenth century have served as a vital starting point for much
of the later work on the various complex web of relations in that
quarter of the capital. A variety of leading scholars utilise the
insight of Fishman's work to present a wide range of insights into
the historical characters and events of the East End. The book's
themes include local politics; anti-alienism, anti-Semitism and
war; and culture and society. In pursuing these topics, the volume
examines in great depth the social, political, religious and
cultural changes that have taken place in the area over the past
120 years, many of which remain both significant and relevant. In
addition, it illustrates East London's links with other parts of
the world including Europe and America and those territories
"beyond the oceans." This book will prove valuable reading for
researchers and readers interested in Victorian and twentieth
century British history, politics and culture.
There is a strong but unreliable view that immigration is a
marginal and recent phenomenon. In fact, immigrants and refugees
have come to Britain throughout its recorded history. In this book,
first published in 1988, Colin Holmes looks at this period in depth
and asks: who were the newcomers and why were they coming? What
were the distinctive features of their economic and social lives in
Britain? How did British society respond to their presence? The
resulting book is a major historical survey of immigration which
synthesises and evaluates existing work and weaves in new material
on a wide range of immigrant minorities.
This book, first published in 1978, examines the debate over
immigration into Britain and raises the important point that the
existence in the country of immigrant and minority groups is
nothing new. Britain has, in fact, attracted newcomers throughout
most of its history and it is to remedy the deficiency of research
and knowledge about these early immigration processes that the
present volume has been put together. Composed of a number of
essays written from different perspectives by specialists in
different areas, it attempts overall to provide a tightly
integrated review of the major research areas, themes and problems
involved in immigration studies.
An East End Legacy is a memorial volume for William J Fishman,
whose seminal works on the East End of London in the late
nineteenth century have served as a vital starting point for much
of the later work on the various complex web of relations in that
quarter of the capital. A variety of leading scholars utilise the
insight of Fishman's work to present a wide range of insights into
the historical characters and events of the East End. The book's
themes include local politics; anti-alienism, anti-Semitism and
war; and culture and society. In pursuing these topics, the volume
examines in great depth the social, political, religious and
cultural changes that have taken place in the area over the past
120 years, many of which remain both significant and relevant. In
addition, it illustrates East London's links with other parts of
the world including Europe and America and those territories
"beyond the oceans." This book will prove valuable reading for
researchers and readers interested in Victorian and twentieth
century British history, politics and culture.
This book, first published in 1978, examines the debate over
immigration into Britain and raises the important point that the
existence in the country of immigrant and minority groups is
nothing new. Britain has, in fact, attracted newcomers throughout
most of its history and it is to remedy the deficiency of research
and knowledge about these early immigration processes that the
present volume has been put together. Composed of a number of
essays written from different perspectives by specialists in
different areas, it attempts overall to provide a tightly
integrated review of the major research areas, themes and problems
involved in immigration studies.
In this book, first published in 1991, Colin Holmes examines
responses to those immigrants and refugees who have been coming to
Britain since the late nineteenth century as well as the perception
and treatment of British-born minorities. He attempts to explain
the hostility which these groups have encountered and reveals
behind complex feelings and circumstances which have often gone
unrecognised.
This is the first detailed study of anti-semitism, as an ideology,
among the British. First published in 1979, it concentrates on the
crucial period between 1876 and 1939 when, against a background of
Jewish immigration, war or the threat of war, and social and
economic unrest, hostility towards the Jewish community reached its
peak. Colin Holmes identifies the main strands of anti-semitic
thought and their expression, starting with the Eastern Crisis of
1876 which sparked off the first serious manifestation of
anti-semitism. He shows how, before 1914, opposition towards Jews
rested on religious and other perceived cultural distinctions. It
was only after the First World War that a sinister and significant
change of emphasis occurred: racism now became the dominant feature
of anti-semitism and was reinforced by theories of conspiracy, the
most notorious being The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Anti-semitism has no uniform cause or characteristic and a single
explanation cannot suffice. This book elucidates the complex range
of factors involved, using both historical and sociological methods
and drawing on extensive (and sometimes controversial) research.
There is a strong but unreliable view that immigration is a
marginal and recent phenomenon. In fact, immigrants and refugees
have come to Britain throughout its recorded history. In this book,
first published in 1988, Colin Holmes looks at this period in depth
and asks: who were the newcomers and why were they coming? What
were the distinctive features of their economic and social lives in
Britain? How did British society respond to their presence? The
resulting book is a major historical survey of immigration which
synthesises and evaluates existing work and weaves in new material
on a wide range of immigrant minorities.
Searching for Lord Haw-Haw is an authoritative account of the
political lives of William Joyce. He became notorious as a fascist,
an anti-Semite and then as a Second World War traitor when,
assuming the persona of Lord Haw-Haw, he acted as a radio
propagandist for the Nazis. It is an endlessly compelling story of
simmering hope, intense frustration, renewed anticipation and
ultimately catastrophic failure. This fully-referenced work is the
first attempt to place Joyce at the centre of the turbulent,
traumatic and influential events through which he lived. It
challenges existing biographies, which have reflected not only
Joyce's frequent calculated deceptions but also the suspect claims
advanced by his family, friends and apologists. By exploring his
rampant, increasingly influential narcissism it also offers a
pioneering analysis of Joyce's personality and exposes its
dangerous, destructive consequences. "What a saga my life would
make!" Joyce wrote from prison just before his execution. Few would
disagree with him.
Searching for Lord Haw-Haw is an authoritative account of the
political lives of William Joyce. He became notorious as a fascist,
an anti-Semite and then as a Second World War traitor when,
assuming the persona of Lord Haw-Haw, he acted as a radio
propagandist for the Nazis. It is an endlessly compelling story of
simmering hope, intense frustration, renewed anticipation and
ultimately catastrophic failure. This fully-referenced work is the
first attempt to place Joyce at the centre of the turbulent,
traumatic and influential events through which he lived. It
challenges existing biographies, which have reflected not only
Joyce's frequent calculated deceptions but also the suspect claims
advanced by his family, friends and apologists. By exploring his
rampant, increasingly influential narcissism it also offers a
pioneering analysis of Joyce's personality and exposes its
dangerous, destructive consequences. "What a saga my life would
make!" Joyce wrote from prison just before his execution. Few would
disagree with him.
This is the first detailed study of anti-semitism, as an ideology,
among the British. First published in 1979, it concentrates on the
crucial period between 1876 and 1939 when, against a background of
Jewish immigration, war or the threat of war, and social and
economic unrest, hostility towards the Jewish community reached its
peak. Colin Holmes identifies the main strands of anti-semitic
thought and their expression, starting with the Eastern Crisis of
1876 which sparked off the first serious manifestation of
anti-semitism. He shows how, before 1914, opposition towards Jews
rested on religious and other perceived cultural distinctions. It
was only after the First World War that a sinister and significant
change of emphasis occurred: racism now became the dominant feature
of anti-semitism and was reinforced by theories of conspiracy, the
most notorious being The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Anti-semitism has no uniform cause or characteristic and a single
explanation cannot suffice. This book elucidates the complex range
of factors involved, using both historical and sociological methods
and drawing on extensive (and sometimes controversial) research.
In this gamble, more than a few poker chips are at stake. When an
Army Air Force Major vanishes from his Top Secret job at the Fort
Worth airbase in the summer of 1947, down-on-his-luck former Ranger
Jefferson Sharp is hired to find him, because the Major owes a
sizable gambling debt to a local mobster. The search takes Sharp
from the hideaway poker rooms of Fort Worth's Thunder Road, to the
barren ranch lands of New Mexico, to secret facilities under
construction in the Nevada desert. Lethal operatives and an opaque
military bureaucracy stand in his way, but when he finds an
otherworldly clue and learns President Truman is creating a new
Central Intelligence Agency and splitting the Air Force from the
Army, Sharp begins to connect dots. And those dots draw a straight
line to a conspiracy aiming to cover up a secret that is out of
this world?literally so.
In this book, first published in 1991, Colin Holmes examines
responses to those immigrants and refugees who have been coming to
Britain since the late nineteenth century as well as the perception
and treatment of British-born minorities. He attempts to explain
the hostility which these groups have encountered and reveals
behind complex feelings and circumstances which have often gone
unrecognised.
Sabotage, murder, cover-ups. Just another day on the Moon. After 35
years of living on the Moon, cranky old oxygen farmer Millennium
Harrison has stumbled onto a hidden facility in the shadows of the
Slayton Ridge Exclusion Zone with a radiation leak and a deadly
secret. Mil's discovery leads to the death of a young astronaut,
sabotage, murder, and cover-ups that may go all the way to the
Chief Administrator of the space agency. Unfortunately, she happens
to be Mil's estranged daughter, busy trying to secure her own
legacy—the first international mission to Mars. With time ticking
down to a limited launch window, enemies, friends, and even family
may do anything to ensure the truth doesn't come out. Or will
history finally catch up with a deadly scheme that has the
potential to destroy the moon and eradicate all life on Earth? It
seems the planet's only hope is a cantankerous guy who never really
liked those people in the first place. For readers who enjoy 2001:
A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke, Artemis by Andy Weir, MoonFall
by Jack McDevitt.
In this gamble, more than a few poker chips are at stake. When an
Army Air Force Major vanishes from his Top Secret job at the Fort
Worth airbase in the summer of 1947, down-on-his-luck former Ranger
Jefferson Sharp is hired to find him, because the Major owes a
sizable gambling debt to a local mobster. The search takes Sharp
from the hideaway poker rooms of Fort Worth's Thunder Road, to the
barren ranch lands of New Mexico, to secret facilities under
construction in the Nevada desert. Lethal operatives and an opaque
military bureaucracy stand in his way, but when he finds an
otherworldly clue and learns President Truman is creating a new
Central Intelligence Agency and splitting the Air Force from the
Army, Sharp begins to connect dots. And those dots draw a straight
line to a conspiracy aiming to cover up a secret that is out of
this world?literally so.
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