English Ethnicity and Culture in North America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook English Ethnicity and Culture in North America write by David T. Gleeson. This book was released on 2017-10-03. English Ethnicity and Culture in North America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ten scholars examine English identity, what makes it distinct, and its role in shaping American culture To many, English immigrants contributed nothing substantial to the varied palette of ethnicity in North America. While there is wide recognition of German American, French American, African American, and Native American cultures, discussion of English Americans as a distinct ethnic group is rare. Yet the historians writing in English Ethnicity and Culture in North America show that the English were clearly immigrants too in a strange land, adding their own hues to the American and Canadian characters. In this collection, editor David T. Gleeson and other contributors explore some of the continued links between England, its people, and its culture with North America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These essays challenge the established view of the English having no "ethnicity," highlighting the vibrancy of the English and their culture in North America. The selections also challenge the prevailing notion of the English as "invisible immigrants." Recognizing the English as a distinct ethnic group, similar to the Irish, Scots, and Germans, also has implications for understanding American identity by providing a clearer picture of how Americans often have defined themselves in the context of Old World cultural traditions. Several contributors to English Ethnicity and Culture in North America track the English in North America from Episcopal pulpits to cricket fields and dance floors. For example Donald M. MacRaild and Tanja Bueltmann explore the role of St. George societies before and after the American Revolution in asserting a separate English identity across class boundaries. In addition Kathryn Lamontagne looks at English ethnicity in the working-class culture and labor union activities of workers in Fall River, Massachusetts. Ultimately all the work included here challenges the idea of a coherent, comfortable Anglo-cultural mainstream and indicates the fluid and adaptable nature of what it meant and means to be English in North America.
The English diaspora in North America
The English diaspora in North America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The English diaspora in North America write by Tanja Bueltmann. This book was released on 2016-12-05. The English diaspora in North America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The English Diaspora in North America
The English Diaspora in North America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The English Diaspora in North America write by Tanja Bueltmann. This book was released on 2017. The English Diaspora in North America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The English Americans
The English Americans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The English Americans write by James Murray Cornelius. This book was released on 1990-01-01. The English Americans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discusses the history, culture, and religion of the English Americans; factors encouraging their emigration; and their acceptance as an ethnic group in North America.
Diversity and Unity in Early North America
Diversity and Unity in Early North America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Diversity and Unity in Early North America write by Phillip Morgan. This book was released on 2005-09-27. Diversity and Unity in Early North America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Philip Morgan's selection of cutting-edge essays by leading historians represents the extraordinary vitality of recent historical literature on early America. The book opens up previously unexplored areas such as cultural diversity, ethnicity, and gender, and reveals the importance of new methods such as anthropology, and historical demography to the study of early America.
