Imperial Heartland : Immigration, Working-class Culture and Everyday Tolerance, 1917-1947 Hardback
by David (University of Sheffield) Holland
Part of the Modern British Histories series
Hardback
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Working-class Britons played a crucial role in the pioneering settlement and integration of South Asians in imperial Britain.
Using a host of new and neglected sources, Imperial Heartland revises the history of early South Asian immigration to Britain, focusing on the northern English city of Sheffield.
Rather than viewing immigration through the lens of inevitable conflict, this study takes an alternative approach, situating mixed marriages and inter-racial social networks centrally within the South Asian settlement of modern Britain.
Whilst acknowledging the episodic racial conflict of the early inter-war period, David Holland challenges assumptions that insurmountable barriers of race, religion and culture existed between the British working classes and non-white newcomers.
Imperial Heartland closely examines the reactions of working-class natives to these young South Asian men and overturns our pre-conceptions that hostility to perceived racial or national difference was an overriding pre-occupation of working-class people during this period.
Imperial Heartland therefore offers a fresh and inspiring new perspective on the social and cultural history of modern Britain.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:350 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:17/08/2023
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- ISBN:9781009216197
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:350 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:17/08/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781009216197
