Full Description
For almost 200 years, the English have been one of the largest migrant streams to New Zealand (they have been on the move globally since around 1600). Yet relatively little has been written about their experiences in New Zealand, compared with their Irish, Scottish, Indian, Chinese and Pacific counterparts. This book brings together leading international scholars and prominent local researchers to explore a wide range of topics and issues at the very heart of research into human mobility. Why did English-born people decide to emigrate? What factors shaped their migration and adaptation? How might we best describe and explain their experiences? This collection of essays will interest anyone interested in migration and/or family history.
Contents
The English Diaspora in New Zealand: New perspectives; In Search of the English & Englishness; 'Everything is English': Expectations, experiences & impacts of English migrants to New Zealand, 1840-1970; 'Burton Ale', London Porter & Kentish Hops: English custom & 19th-century New Zealand drinking culture; Migration & Ethicity Among English Migrants in New Zealand Asylums; Memory, Mourning & melancholy: English ways of death on the margins of empire; Pakeha or English? Maori Understandings of Englishness in the colonial period; Arcadia Reinvented? Recounting the recent sentiments & experiences of English migrants to New Zealand; The 'New Chum': Writings of the English diaspora in New Zealand, 1860-1914.
