British and Irish diasporas: Societies, cultures and ideologies - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1526127857 ISBN 13: 9781526127853

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2018

Synopsis

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. -- .

About this title

About the Author:

Donald M. MacRaild is Professor of British and Irish History at the University of Roehampton Tanja Bueltmann is Professor in History at Northumbria University Jonathan C. D. Clark is Hall Distinguished Professor of British History Emeritus at the University of Kansas -- .

About this edition

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1526127857
• ISBN 13: 9781526127853
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 334
• Editor: MacRaild Donald, Bueltmann Tanja, Clark J. C. D.