Wills, Clair Lovers and Strangers 9780141974972

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Автор: Wills, Clair
Название: Lovers and Strangers
Перевод названия: Уиллс. Любовь и незнакомцы: история иммигрантов в послевоенной Британии
ISBN: 9780141974972
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Классификация:

История Британии и Ирландии

Социальная история и история культуры

Миграция, иммиграция и эмиграция

ISBN-10: 0141974974
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 240
Вес: 0.37 кг.
Дата издания: 03.05.2018
Язык: English
Размер: 129 x 198 x 22
Читательская аудитория: Tertiary education (us: college)
Подзаголовок: An immigrant history of post-war britain
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 Generous and empathetic ... opens up postwar migration in all its richness Sukhdev Sandhu, Guardian Groundbreaking, sophisticated, original, open-minded ... essential reading for anyone who wants to understand not only the transformation of British society after the war but also its character today Piers Brendon, Literary Review Lyrical, full of wise and original observations David Goodhart, The Times The battered and exhausted Britain of 1945 was desperate for workers - to rebuild, to fill the factories, to make the new NHS work. From all over the world and with many motives, thousands of individuals took the plunge. Most assumed they would spend just three or four years here, sending most of their pay back home, but instead large numbers stayed - and transformed the country. Drawing on an amazing array of unusual and surprising sources, Clair Wills wonderful new book brings to life the incredible diversity and strangeness of the migrant experience. She introduces us to lovers, scroungers, dancers, homeowners, teachers, drinkers, carers and many more to show the opportunities and excitement as much as the humiliation and poverty that could be part of the new arrivals experience. Irish, Bengalis, West Indians, Poles, Maltese, Punjabis and Cypriots battled to fit into an often shocked Britain and, to their own surprise, found themselves making permanent homes. As Britain picked itself up again in the 1950s migrants set about changing life in their own image, through music, clothing, food, religion, but also fighting racism and casual and not so casual violence. Lovers and Strangers is an extremely important book, one that is full of enjoyable surprises, giving a voice to a generation who had to deal with the reality of life surrounded by white strangers in their new country.

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