Buch, Englisch, 346 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 684 g
Migration and Modernisation
Buch, Englisch, 346 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 684 g
ISBN: 978-1-84383-320-8
Verlag: Boydell Press
First scholarly study devoted to Guernsey in the nineteenth century, as it changed from a francophone to an anglophone society.
In the early nineteenth century, despite 600 years of allegiance to the English Crown, a majority of Guernseymen still spoke a Franco-Norman dialect and retained cultural affinities with France. By the eve of World War I, however,insular society had turned predominantly anglophone and was culturally orientated towards England.
In examining this sea-change, the author focuses particularly on the role of migration, since the Island experienced both substantial outflows [to North America and the Antipodes], and substantial inflows [from Dorset, Devon, Somerset, Hampshire and Cornwall; the Irish province of Munster, and the French départements of La Manche and Les Côtes-du-Nord]. The author investigates push- and pull-factors influencing the various migrant cohorts, and evaluates the reception they met from the insular authorities and population at large. Whilst showing that both British and Frenchmigrants, in their different ways, advanced the process of anglicisation, she sets their contribution in its proper perspective against the host of less tangible forces which had first initiated anglicisation and were hastening it on irrespective of the migrant presence.
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- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
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Weitere Infos & Material
Introduction
Constitution and Government
Economy
Population and Migration
Origins, Distribution and Composition of the Immigrant Cohort
English and Irish Immigration
Immigration from and via other Channel Islands
French Immigration
Legal Status and Administrative Treatment of Strangers
Migrant-Native Interactions (1): Social and Political
Migrant-Native Interactions (2): Personal and Individual
Changing Identities
Conclusion
