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After 1600, English emigration became one of Europe's most
significant population movements. Yet compared to what has been
written about the migration of Scots and Irish, relatively little
energy has been expended on the numerically more significant
English flows. Whilst 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? Why has little been said about the English other than to
map their main emigration flows? Did the English simply disappear
into the host population? Or were they so fundamental, and
foundational, to the Anglophone, Protestant cultures of the
evolving British World that they could not be distinguished in the
way Catholic Irish or continental Europeans were? With
contributions from the UK, Europe North America and Australasia
that examine 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, this international collection explores these and related
key issues about the nature and character of English identity
during the creation of the cultures of the wider British World. It
does not do so uncritically. Several of the authors deal with and
accept the invisibility of the English, while others take the
opposite view. The result is a lively collection which combines
reaffirmations of some existing ideas with fresh empirical
research, and groundbreaking new conceptualisations.
Ethnic associations were once vibrant features of societies, such
as the United States and Canada, which attracted large numbers of
immigrants. While the transplanted cultural lives of the Irish,
Scots and continental Europeans have received much attention, the
English are far less widely explored. It is assumed the English
were not an ethnic community, that they lacked the alienating
experiences associated with immigration and thus possessed few
elements of diasporas. This deeply researched new book questions
this assumption. It shows that English associations once were
widespread, taking hold in colonial America, spreading to Canada
and then encompassing all of the empire. Celebrating saints days,
expressing pride in the monarch and national heroes, providing
charity to the national poor, and forging mutual aid societies
mutual, were all features of English life overseas. In fact, the
English simply resembled other immigrant groups too much to be
dismissed as the unproblematic, invisible immigrants. -- .
Ethnic associations were once vibrant features of societies, such
as the United States and Canada, which attracted large numbers of
immigrants. While the transplanted cultural lives of the Irish,
Scots and continental Europeans have received much attention, the
English are far less widely explored. It is assumed the English
were not an ethnic community, that they lacked the alienating
experiences associated with immigration and thus possessed few
elements of diasporas. This deeply researched new book questions
this assumption. It shows that English associations once were
widespread, taking hold in colonial America, spreading to Canada
and then encompassing all of the empire. Celebrating saints days,
expressing pride in the monarch and national heroes, providing
charity to the national poor, and forging mutual aid societies
mutual, were all features of English life overseas. -- .
A history of the Scottish diaspora from c.1700 to 1945 Did you know
that Scotland was one of Europe's main population exporters in the
age of mass migration? Or that the Scottish Honours System was
introduced as far afield as New Zealand? This comprehensive
introductory history of the Scottish diaspora examines these and
related issues, exploring the migration of Scots overseas, their
experiences in the new worlds in which they settled and the impact
of the diaspora on Scotland. Global in scope, the book's
distinctive feature is its focus on both the geographies of the
Scottish diaspora and key theories, concepts and themes, including
associationalism and return migration. By revisiting these themes
throughout the chapters, the multifaceted characteristics of
'Scottishness' abroad are unravelled, transcending narrow
interpretations that define the Scottish diaspora primarily in
terms of the movement of people. Readers will gain an understanding
of migration flows and destination countries, but also the imprints
and legacies of emigre Scots overseas and at home. Key Features
*Comprehensive overview of Scottish diaspora history *Sections
explaining themes and geographies *International in scope
*Conceptual case studies: England & Ireland; United States;
Canada; Africa; Asia; Australia & New Zealand (the Antipodes)
Emigrants carried a rich array of associations with them to the new
worlds in which they settled, often 'clubbing together' along
ethnic lines shortly after first foot fall. Yet while a crucial
element of immigrant community life, one of the richest examples,
that of Scottish migrants, has received only patchy coverage.
Moreover, no one has yet problematized Scottish associations, such
as St Andrew's societies or Burns clubs, as a series of
transnational connections that were deeply rooted in the civic life
of their respective communities. This book provides the first
global study to capture the wider relevance of the Scots'
associationalism, arguing that associations and formal sociability
are a key to explaining how migrants negotiated their ethnicity in
the diaspora and connected to social structures in diverse
settlements. Moving beyond the traditional nineteenth-century
settler dominions, the book offers a unique comparative focus,
bringing together Scotland's near diaspora in England and Ireland
with that in North America, Africa, and Australasia to assess the
evolution of Scottish ethnic associations, as well as their diverse
roles as sites of memory and expressions of civility. The book
reveals that the structures offered by Scottish associations
engaged directly with the local, New World contexts, developing
distinct characteristics that cannot be subsumed under one
simplistic label-that of an overseas 'national society'. The book
promotes understanding not only of Scottish ethnicity overseas, but
also of how different types of ethnic associational activism made
diaspora tangible.
People from the British and Irish Isles have, for centuries,
migrated to all corners of the globe.Wherever they went, the
English, Irish, Scots, Welsh, and and even sub-national,
supra-regional groups like the Cornish, co-mingled, blended and
blurred. Yet while they gradually integrated into new lives in
far-flung places, British and Irish Isle emigrants often maintained
elements of their distinctive national cultures, which is an
important foundation of diasporas. Within this wider context, this
volume seeks to explore the nature and characteristics of the
British and Irish diasporas, stressing their varying origins and
evolution, the developing attachments to them, and the differences
in each nation's recognition of their own diaspora. The volume thus
offers the first integrated study of the formation of diasporas
from the islands of Ireland and Britain, with a particular view to
scrutinizing the similarities, differences, tensions and
possibilities of this approach. -- .
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