Title English ethnicity and culture in North America / edited by David T. Gleeson

Published Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource Contents "Introduction: England in America -- Relocating the English diaspora in America / William Van Vugt -- Ethnic conflict and English associational culture in America : the Benevolent Order of the Society of St. George, 1870-1920 / Donald M. MacRaild -- Mutual, ethnic, and diasporic: the Sons of England in Canada, c. 1880 to 1910 / Tanja Bueltmann -- "Lancashire in America" : the culture of English textile mill operatives in fall river, massachusetts, 1875-1904 / Kathryn G. Lamontagne -- The Church of England and English clergymen in the united states, 1783-1861 / Joseph Hardwick -- England and the antebellum South / David T. Gleeson -- "Time and circumstance work great changes in public sentiment": royal statues and monuments in the United States of America, 1770-2010 / James McConnel -- "The game of the English" : cricket and the spread of English culture in North America, 1830-1900 / Dean Allen -- Reviving English folk customs in America in the early twentieth century / Monika Smialkowska -- The morris diaspora: transplanting an old English tradition or inventing a new American one? / Mike Sutton." Summary "As Van Vugt's analysis of English immigrants in the United States is an appropriate place to begin this collection, so Sutton's essay is a fitting one to conclude it. Sutton confirms in many ways a belief shared by all of us involved in this project: that as with other ethnicities in North America, English culture did not disappear into a larger mainstream but instead was adapted, merged, and transformed into something hybrid. St. Patrick's Day, for example, began in North America as an exclusive ethnic festival for Irish immigrants, but it has been transformed into something that is as much, if not more, American as it is Irish. Preserved by ethnic associations for their future "hyphenated" generations, this idea of a symbiotic assimilation of immigrant cultures in the U.S. and Canadian mainstreams is accepted by scholars. We believe that this applies to English literature, pageantry, commemorations, cricket, and much more, and we hope that this initial foray will encourage others to pursue the numerous other sources of English ethnicity in the United States and Canada and how they were transformed on the western side of the Atlantic"-- Provided by publisher Notes Includes index Print version record Subject British Americans -- History British Americans -- Ethnic identity British Americans -- Social life and customs English -- North America -- History SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century. British Americans British Americans -- Social life and customs Civilization -- British influences English SUBJECT North America -- Civilization -- British influences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93008012 Subject North America Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Gleeson, David T., editor ISBN 9781611177879 1611177871

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