ABSTRACT
There is a strong but unreliable view that immigration is a marginal and recent phenomenon. In fact, immigrants and refugees have come to Britain throughout its recorded history. In this book, first published in 1988, Colin Holmes looks at this period in depth and asks: who were the newcomers and why were they coming? What were the distinctive features of their economic and social lives in Britain? How did British society respond to their presence? The resulting book is a major historical survey of immigration which synthesises and evaluates existing work and weaves in new material on a wide range of immigrant minorities.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |15 pages
Part One
chapter |13 pages
Introduction
part |190 pages
Part Two
chapter I|67 pages
Immigration in the Age of Imperialism
chapter II|29 pages
The Strains of War,1914–19
chapter III|46 pages
‘The glass is falling hour by hour' Immigration, 1919–39
chapter IV|46 pages
In a Context of Total War, 1939–45
part |66 pages
Part Three
chapter V|64 pages
The Postwar Years, 1945–71
part |150 pages
Part Four