1st Edition

Immigrants and Minorities in British Society

By Colin Holmes Copyright 1978
206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Introduction: Immigrants and Minorities in Britain Colin Holmes  2. Britons Old and New V.G. Kiernan  3. German Immigrants in England Hermann Kellenbenz  4. English Attitudes to the Irish in England, 1789-1900 Sheridan Gilley  5. The Chinese in Britain, 1860-1914 J.P. May  6. J.A. Hobson and the Jews Colin Holmes  7. The Vitality of a Tradition Nicholas Deakin

Biography

Holmes, Colin