Locating the English Diaspora, 1500-2010 / edited by Tanja Bueltmann, David T. Gleeson, Don MacRaild.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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This collection of essays is the first serious attempt to conceptualise the transplantation of English migrants and culture in the New World as a diaspora.

Introduction. Locating the English diaspora : problems, perspectives and approaches / Tanja Bueltmann, David T. Gleeson and Donald M. MacRaild -- Mythologies of Empire and the earliest English diasporas / Glyn Parry -- The English seventeenth century in colonial America : the cultural diaspora of English republican ideas / David Walker -- Fox hunting and Anglicization in eighteenth-century Philadelphia / Doreen Skala -- The hidden English diaspora in nineteenth-century America / William E. Van Vugt -- An English institution? : the colonial Church of England in the first half of the nineteenth century / Joe Hardwick -- The importance of being English : English ethnic culture in Montreal, c. 1800-1865 / Gillian I. Leitch -- Anglo-Saxonism and the racialization of the English diaspora / Tanja Bueltmann -- 'The Englishmen here are much disliked' : hostility towards English immigrants in early twentieth-century Toronto / Amy J. Lloyd -- Cousin Jacks, new chums and ten pound Poms : locating New Zealand's English diaspora / Brad Patterson -- 'Cooked in true Yorkshire fashion' : regional identity and English associational life in New Zealand before the First World War / James Watson -- Englishness and cricket in South Africa during the Boer War / Dean Allen -- An Englishman in New York? : celebrating Shakespeare in America, 1916 / Monika Smialkowska -- The disappearance of the English : why is there no 'English diaspora'? / Robert J.C. Young.

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