Immigrant England, 1300-1550 /:

"This book provides a vivid and accessible history of first-generation immigrants to England in the later Middle Ages. Accounting for upwards of two percent of the population and coming from all parts of Europe and beyond, immigrants spread out over the kingdom, settling in the countryside as w...

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Hauptverfasser: Ormrod, W. M., 1957- (VerfasserIn), Lambert, Bart (VerfasserIn), Mackman, Jonathan (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.
Schriftenreihe:Manchester medieval studies.
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Zusammenfassung:"This book provides a vivid and accessible history of first-generation immigrants to England in the later Middle Ages. Accounting for upwards of two percent of the population and coming from all parts of Europe and beyond, immigrants spread out over the kingdom, settling in the countryside as well as in towns, taking work as agricultural laborers, skilled craftspeople and professionals. Often encouraged and welcomed, sometimes vilified and victimised, immigrants were always on the social and political agenda. Immigrant England is the first book to address a phenomenon and issue of vital concern to English people at the time, to their descendants living in the United Kingdom today and to all those interested in the historical dimensions of immigration policy, attitudes to ethnicity and race and concepts of Englishness and Britishness"--
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xi, 300 pages) : maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-285) and index.
ISBN:9781526135773
1526135779
9781526109163
1526109166

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