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1 online resource (x, 266 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-253) and index. |
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German-speaking people have always lived, either as temporary or as long-term residents, in the British Isles. While the majority of the visitors arrived to pursue trade, others came for a wide variety of reasons. In the sixteenth century German reformers came to promote Protestantism. In 1714 the Elector of Hanover came because he had inherited the crown. In Victorian times Karl Marx wrote Das Kapital in the British Museum. The nineteenth century was perhaps the highpoint in the history of German settlement, with the establishment of widespread German communities and organisations. The First. |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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| Contents |
Illustrations; Preface; Notes on Contributors; Abbreviations; 1 Germans in Britain''s History; 2 Germans in Early Modern Britain; 3 Germans in Eighteenth-Century Britain; 4 The German Churches in London, 1669-1914; 5 German Immigrants in Britain, 1815-1914; 6 Written in Britain: Publications by German-Speaking Literary Exiles in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; 7 The Destruction of the German Communities in Britain during the First World War; 8 London''s German Community in the Early 1930s; 9 German Refugees from Nazism; 10 British Recruitment of German Labour, 1945-50. |
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11 The Germans after 1945Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Germans -- Great Britain -- History.
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Germans. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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Immigrants -- Great Britain -- History.
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Immigrants. |
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Great Britain -- Ethnic relations.
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Ethnic relations. |
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Germans Social conditions History |
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Great Britain |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Panayi, Panikos.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Germans in Britain since 1500. London ; Rio Grande, Ohio : Hambledon Press, 1996 1852851260 (DLC) 95049120 (OCoLC)33440744 |
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9780826420381 (electronic book) |
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0826420389 (electronic book) |
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1852851260 |
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9781852851262 |
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