[PDF] Nature And The English Diaspora eBook

Author : Thomas Dunlap
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 25,98 MB
Release : 1999-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521651738

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This book is a comparative history of the development of ideas about nature, particularly of the importance of native nature in the Anglo settler countries of the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. It examines the development of natural history, settlers' adaptations to the end of expansion, scientists' shift from natural history to ecology, and the rise of environmentalism. Addressing not only scientific knowledge but also popular issues from hunting to landscape painting, this book explores the ways in which English-speaking settlers looked at nature in their new lands.

Author : Donald MacRaild
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 46,82 MB
Release : 2019-01-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1526127873

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People from the British and Irish Isles have, for centuries, migrated to all corners of the globe.Wherever they went, the English, Irish, Scots, Welsh, and and even sub-national, supra-regional groups like the Cornish, co-mingled, blended and blurred. Yet while they gradually integrated into new lives in far-flung places, British and Irish Isle emigrants often maintained elements of their distinctive national cultures, which is an important foundation of diasporas. Within this wider context, this volume seeks to explore the nature and characteristics of the British and Irish diasporas, stressing their varying origins and evolution, the developing attachments to them, and the differences in each nation’s recognition of their own diaspora. The volume thus offers the first integrated study of the formation of diasporas from the islands of Ireland and Britain, with a particular view to scrutinizing the similarities, differences, tensions and possibilities of this approach.

Author : Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah
Publisher : Institute for Public Policy Research
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 40,79 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Emigration and immigration
ISBN : 9781860303074

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Based on extensive analysis of emigration data and qualitative research in several countries, this book presents estimates of how many Britons live abroad, where they live and what emigration patterns look like.

Author : Leonard Tennenhouse
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 26,96 MB
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0691171270

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American literature is typically seen as something that inspired its own conception and that sprang into being as a cultural offshoot of America's desire for national identity. But what of the vast precedent established by English literature, which was a major American import between 1750 and 1850? In The Importance of Feeling English, Leonard Tennenhouse revisits the landscape of early American literature and radically revises its features. Using the concept of transatlantic circulation, he shows how some of the first American authors--from poets such as Timothy Dwight and Philip Freneau to novelists like William Hill Brown and Charles Brockden Brown--applied their newfound perspective to pre-existing British literary models. These American "re-writings" would in turn inspire native British authors such as Jane Austen and Horace Walpole to reconsider their own ideas of subject, household, and nation. The enduring nature of these literary exchanges dramatically recasts early American literature as a literature of diaspora, Tennenhouse argues--and what made the settlers' writings distinctly and indelibly American was precisely their insistence on reproducing Englishness, on making English identity portable and adaptable. Written in an incisive and illuminating style, The Importance of Feeling English reveals the complex roots of American literature, and shows how its transatlantic movement aided and abetted the modernization of Anglophone culture at large.

Author : Kevin Kenny
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,19 MB
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199858583

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Diaspora: A Very Short Introduction examines the origins of diaspora as a concept, its changing meanings over time, its current popularity, and its utility in explaining human migration. The book proposes a flexible approach to diaspora based on examples drawn mainly from Jewish, African, Irish, and Asian history.

Author : Thomas R Dunlap
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 11,68 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780295983974

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A thoughtful and engaging discussion of the intellectual and spiritual underpinnings of modern American environmentalism

Author : Tanja Bueltmann
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 31,17 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1526103737

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Ethnic associations were once vibrant features of societies, such as the United States and Canada, which attracted large numbers of immigrants. While the transplanted cultural lives of the Irish, Scots and continental Europeans have received much attention, the English are far less widely explored. It is assumed the English were not an ethnic community, that they lacked the alienating experiences associated with immigration and thus possessed few elements of diasporas. This deeply researched new book questions this assumption. It shows that English associations once were widespread, taking hold in colonial America, spreading to Canada and then encompassing all of the empire. Celebrating saints days, expressing pride in the monarch and national heroes, providing charity to the national poor, and forging mutual aid societies mutual, were all features of English life overseas. In fact, the English simply resembled other immigrant groups too much to be dismissed as the unproblematic, invisible immigrants.

Author : Tanja Bueltmann
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 38,11 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 184631819X

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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.

Author : Greg Egan
Publisher : Greg Egan
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 12,83 MB
Release : 1997-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1922240044

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In 2975, the orphan Yatima is grown from a randomly mutated digital mind seed in the conceptory of Konishi polis. Yatima explores the Coalition of Polises, the network of computers where most life in the solar system now resides, and joins a friend, Inoshiro, to borrow an abandoned robot body and meet a thriving community of “fleshers” in the enclave of Atlanta. Twenty-one years later, news arrives from a lunar observatory: gravitational waves from Lac G-1, a nearby pair of neutron stars, show that the Earth is about to be bathed in a gamma-ray flash created by the stars’ collision — an event that was not expected to take place for seven million years. Yatima and Inoshiro return to Atlanta to try to warn the fleshers, but meet suspicion and disbelief. Some lives are saved, but the Earth is ravaged. In the aftermath of the disaster, the survivors resolve to discover the cause of the neutron stars’ premature collision, and they launch a thousand polises into interstellar space in search of answers. This diaspora eventually reaches a planet subtly transformed to encode a message from an older group of travellers: a greater danger than Lac G-1 is imminent, and the only escape route leads beyond the visible universe.

Author : Jean-Michel Lafleur
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 32,48 MB
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3030512371

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This third and last open access volume in the series takes the perspective of non-EU countries on immigrant social protection. By focusing on 12 of the largest sending countries to the EU, the book tackles the issue of the multiple areas of sending state intervention towards migrant populations. Two “mirroring” chapters are dedicated to each of the 12 non-EU states analysed (Argentina, China, Ecuador, India, Lebanon, Morocco, Russia, Senegal, Serbia, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey). One chapter focuses on access to social benefits across five core policy areas (health care, unemployment, old-age pensions, family benefits, guaranteed minimum resources) by discussing the social protection policies that non-EU countries offer to national residents, non-national residents, and non-resident nationals. The second chapter examines the role of key actors (consulates, diaspora institutions and home country ministries and agencies) through which non-EU sending countries respond to the needs of nationals abroad. The volume additionally includes two chapters focusing on the peculiar case of the United Kingdom after the Brexit referendum. Overall, this volume contributes to ongoing debates on migration and the welfare state in Europe by showing how non-EU sending states continue to play a role in third country nationals’ ability to deal with social risks. As such this book is a valuable read to researchers, policy makers, government employees and NGO’s.