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Personal Narratives of Irish and Scottish Migration, 1921-65: 'For Spirit and Adventure'
ISBN: 9780719073533 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Between 1921 and 1965 Irish and Scottish migrants continued to seek new homes abroad. Using the personal accounts of these migrants from letters, interviews, questionnaires, and shipboard journals, together with more traditional documentary sources such as immigration files and maritime records, this book examines the experience of migration and settlement in North America and Australasia. Through a close reading of personal testimonies the author highlights the assorted similarities and differences between the Irish and Scots. Subtle differences rather than yawning cultural gaps are...
Between 1921 and 1965 Irish and Scottish migrants continued to seek new homes abroad. Using the personal accounts of these migrants from letters, inte...
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109,15 zł |
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Ireland in the World: Comparative, Transnational, and Personal Perspectives
ISBN: 9781032098548 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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140,00 zł |
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Migration, Ethnicity, and Madness: New Zealand, 1860-1910
ISBN: 9781781381625 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book provides a social, cultural, and political history of migration, ethnicity, and madness in New Zealand between 1860 and 1910. Its key aim is to analyse the ways that patients, families, asylum officials, and immigration authorities engaged with the ethnic backgrounds and migration histories and pathways of asylum patients and why. Exploring such issues enables us to appreciate the difficulties that some migrants experienced in their relocation abroad, hardships that are often elided in studies of migration that focus on successful migrant settlement.
Drawing upon lunatic asylum... This book provides a social, cultural, and political history of migration, ethnicity, and madness in New Zealand between 1860 and 1910. Its key aim is...
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597,87 zł |
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A Global Clan: Scottish Migrant Networks and Identities Since the Eighteenth Century
ISBN: 9781845110673 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Migration from the British ""Celtic fringe"" since the eighteenth century has had a significant impact on the politics, economics, demography, sociology and culture of the New World, as forces shaping international politics and even war. The authors use new material to explore Scottish migrant networks and personal experiences in areas such as the Caribbean, New Zealand and Australia.
Migration from the British ""Celtic fringe"" since the eighteenth century has had a significant impact on the politics, economics, demography, sociolo...
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674,31 zł |
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Migration, Ethnicity, and Mental Health: International Perspectives, 1840-2010
ISBN: 9781138378056 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Most investigations of foreign-born migrants emphasize the successful adjustment and settlement of newcomers. Yet suicide, heavy drinking, violence, family separations, and domestic disharmony were but a few of the possible struggles experienced by those who relocated abroad in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and were among the chief reasons for committal to an asylum. Significant analysis of this problem, addressing the interconnected issues of migration, ethnicity, and insanity, has to date received little attention from the scholarly community.
This international collection... Most investigations of foreign-born migrants emphasize the successful adjustment and settlement of newcomers. Yet suicide, heavy drinking, violence, f...
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259,30 zł |
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The Commodore 64: History, Technology, and Legacy
ISBN: 9781518811081 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Commodore 64 is one of the most fondly remembered computers from the early 80s - learn all about the Commodore line of devices, their history, and lasting legacy in this collection of articles by Angela S. McCarthy.
The Commodore 64 is one of the most fondly remembered computers from the early 80s - learn all about the Commodore line of devices, their history, and...
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114,16 zł |
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Migration, Ethnicity, and Mental Health: International Perspectives, 1840-2010
ISBN: 9780415895804 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Most investigations of foreign-born migrants emphasize the successful adjustment and settlement of newcomers. Yet suicide, heavy drinking, violence, family separations, and domestic disharmony were but a few of the possible struggles experienced by those who relocated abroad in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and were among the chief reasons for committal to an asylum. Significant analysis of this problem, addressing the interconnected issues of migration, ethnicity, and insanity, has to date received little attention from the scholarly community. This international collection...
Most investigations of foreign-born migrants emphasize the successful adjustment and settlement of newcomers. Yet suicide, heavy drinking, violence, f...
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778,05 zł |
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Migration, Ethnicity, and Madness: New Zealand, 1860–1910
ISBN: 9781800348882 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book provides a social, cultural, and political history of migration, ethnicity, and madness in New Zealand between 1860 and 1910. Its key aim is to analyse the ways that patients, families, asylum officials, and immigration authorities engaged with the ethnic backgrounds and migration histories and pathways of asylum patients and why. Exploring such issues enables us to appreciate the difficulties that some migrants experienced in their relocation abroad, hardships that are often elided in studies of migration that focus on successful migrant settlement. Drawing upon lunatic asylum...
This book provides a social, cultural, and political history of migration, ethnicity, and madness in New Zealand between 1860 and 1910. Its key aim is...
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149,88 zł |
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Global Migrations: The Scottish Diaspora Since 1600
ISBN: 9781474429320 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. The Scottish Diaspora since 1600. From the seventeenth century to the current day, more than 2.5 million Scots have sought new lives in Europe, the USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Ceylon now Sri Lanka, Hong Kong and Guyana. This book of essays from established and emerging scholars examines the impact since 1600 of out migration from Scotland on the homeland, the migrants and the destinations in which they settled, and their descendants and affinity Scots. It does so through a focus on the under-researched themes of slavery, cross-cultural encounters, economics, war,...
The Scottish Diaspora since 1600. From the seventeenth century to the current day, more than 2.5 million Scots have sought new lives in Europe, the US...
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122,15 zł |
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A Global Clan Scottish Migrant Networks and Identities Since the Eighteenth Century
ISBN: 9781848859654 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A Global Clan explores the impact of Scottish migration on New World development. With a new approach linking personal accounts to ""networks"" of kin and social groups, this book taps into the expanding academic debate on migration linking imperial history and the European diaspora. Migration from the British ""Celtic fringe"" since the eighteenth century has had a significant impact on the politics, economics, demography, sociology, and culture of the New World, as a force shaping international politics and even war. The contributors use new material to explore Scottish migrant...
A Global Clan explores the impact of Scottish migration on New World development. With a new approach linking personal accounts to ""networks""...
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191,87 zł |
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Irish Migrants in New Zealand, 1840-1937: 'The Desired Haven'
ISBN: 9781843831433 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. 'I have at last reached the desired haven', exclaimed Belfast-born Bessie Macready in 1878, the year of her arrival at Lyttelton, when writing home to cousins in County Down. There was a huge amount of worldwide European migration between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, a phenomenon which this book examines. Making close use of personal correspondence exchanged between Ireland and New Zealand, the author addresses a number of central questions in migration history, including the circumstances of departure; why some connections chose to stay; how migrant letter writers depicted...
'I have at last reached the desired haven', exclaimed Belfast-born Bessie Macready in 1878, the year of her arrival at Lyttelton, when writing home to...
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492,77 zł |
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Scottishness and Irishness in New Zealand Since 1840
ISBN: 9780719077616 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book examines the distinctive aspects that insiders and outsiders perceived as characteristic of Irish and Scottish ethnic identities in New Zealand. When, how, and why did Irish and Scots identify themselves and others in ethnic terms? What characteristics did the Irish and the Scots attribute to themselves and what traits did others assign to them? Did these traits change over time and if so how?
Contemporary interest surrounding issues of ethnic identities is vibrant. In countries such as New Zealand, descendants of European settlers are seeking their ethnic origins, spurred on in... This book examines the distinctive aspects that insiders and outsiders perceived as characteristic of Irish and Scottish ethnic identities in New Zeal...
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464,10 zł |
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Narratives of Migrant and Refugee Discrimination in New Zealand
ISBN: 9781032229935 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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207,43 zł |
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Death in the Diaspora: British and Irish Gravestones
ISBN: 9781474473798 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. As British and Irish migrants sought new lives in the Caribbean, Asia, North America and Australasia, they left a trail of physical remains where settlement occurred. Between the 17th and 20th centuries, gravestones and elaborate epitaphs documented identity and attachment to their old and new worlds. This book expands upon earlier examination of cultural imperialism to reveal how individuals, kinship groups and occupational connections identified with place and space over time. With analyses based on gravestones and memorial markers in the UK and Ireland, Australasia, Asia, Africa and the...
As British and Irish migrants sought new lives in the Caribbean, Asia, North America and Australasia, they left a trail of physical remains where sett...
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108,87 zł |
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The Dead Spot: Stories of Lost Girls
ISBN: 9781958598276 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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65,32 zł |
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Tea and Empire: James Taylor in Victorian Ceylon
ISBN: 9781526119056 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book brings to life for the first time the remarkable story of James Taylor, 'father of the Ceylon tea enterprise' in the nineteenth century. Publicly celebrated in Sri Lanka for his efforts in transforming the country's economy and shaping the world's drinking habits, Taylor died in disgrace and remains unknown to the present day in his native Scotland. Using a unique archive of Taylor's letters written over a 40-year period, Angela McCarthy and Tom Devine provide an unusually detailed reconstruction of a British planter's life in Asia at the high noon of empire. As well as charting...
This book brings to life for the first time the remarkable story of James Taylor, 'father of the Ceylon tea enterprise' in the nineteenth century. Pub...
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200,22 zł |
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New Scots: Scotland's Immigrant Communities Since 1945
ISBN: 9781474437875 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This is the first wide-ranging, cross-disciplinary overview of immigration to Scotland in recent history and its impact on both the newcomers and the host society. It examines key themes relating to postwar migration by showcasing the experiences of many of Scotland's most striking immigrant communities.
This is the first wide-ranging, cross-disciplinary overview of immigration to Scotland in recent history and its impact on both the newcomers and the ...
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440,90 zł |
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Migrant Cross-Cultural Encounters in Asia and the Pacific
ISBN: 9781472481474 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In contrast to much scholarship on cross-cultural encounters, which focuses primarily on contact between indigenous peoples and settlers or sojourners, this book is concerned with migrant aspects of this phenomenon whether migrant-migrant or migrant-host encounters bringing together studies from a variety of perspectives on cross-cultural encounters, their past, and their resonances across the contemporary Asia-Pacific region. Organised thematically into sections focusing on imperial encounters of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, identities in the twentieth and twenty-first... In contrast to much scholarship on cross-cultural encounters, which focuses primarily on contact between indigenous peoples and settlers or sojourn... |
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752,12 zł |
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Migrant Cross-Cultural Encounters in Asia and the Pacific
ISBN: 9780367595715 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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207,43 zł |
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Global Migrations: The Scottish Diaspora Since 1600
ISBN: 9781474410045 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book examines the impact since 1600 of out migration from Scotland on the homeland, the migrants, and the destinations in which they settled. It does so through a focus on the under-researched themes of slavery, cross-cultural encounters, economics, war, tourism, and the modern diaspora since 1945.
This book examines the impact since 1600 of out migration from Scotland on the homeland, the migrants, and the destinations in which they settled. It ...
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466,83 zł |
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