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'Ten Pound Poms'
A life history of British postwar emigration to Australia
Taschenbuch von A. James Hammerton (u. a.)
Sprache: Englisch

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More than a million Britons emigrated to Australia between the 1940s and 1970s. They were the famous 'Ten Pound Poms' and this is their story, illuminated by the riveting testimony of migrant life histories
More than a million Britons emigrated to Australia between the 1940s and 1970s. They were the famous 'Ten Pound Poms' and this is their story, illuminated by the riveting testimony of migrant life histories
Über den Autor
A. James Hammerton is Honorary Research Associate at La Trobe University, Melbourne. Alistair Thomson is Director of the Centre for Continuing Education at the University of Sussex and Reader in Continuing Education and History
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
A note on punctuation of interviews
Introduction
PART I EMIGRATION
1. Imagining Australia
22 Leaving Britain
3. Between two worlds
PART II BRITONS IN POSTWAR AUSTRALIA
4. Strangers on the shore
5. 'Butlins without the laughs': life on the hostel
6. An Australian working life
7. Suburban dreams and family realities: making a home in Australia
8. Ten pound pioneers of the back-packing generation
9. 'My wayward heart': the British exodus from Australia
PART III MIGRATION, MEMORY AND IDENTITY
10. Coming 'home'
11. British Australians: migration, nationality and identity
Appendix: statistical summary of project interviews
Bibliography
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Fachbereich: Regionalgeschichte
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780719071331
ISBN-10: 071907133X
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Hammerton, A. James
Thomson, Alistair
Hersteller: Manchester University Press
Maße: 234 x 156 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: A. James Hammerton (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 28.09.2012
Gewicht: 0,611 kg
Artikel-ID: 102409042
Über den Autor
A. James Hammerton is Honorary Research Associate at La Trobe University, Melbourne. Alistair Thomson is Director of the Centre for Continuing Education at the University of Sussex and Reader in Continuing Education and History
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
A note on punctuation of interviews
Introduction
PART I EMIGRATION
1. Imagining Australia
22 Leaving Britain
3. Between two worlds
PART II BRITONS IN POSTWAR AUSTRALIA
4. Strangers on the shore
5. 'Butlins without the laughs': life on the hostel
6. An Australian working life
7. Suburban dreams and family realities: making a home in Australia
8. Ten pound pioneers of the back-packing generation
9. 'My wayward heart': the British exodus from Australia
PART III MIGRATION, MEMORY AND IDENTITY
10. Coming 'home'
11. British Australians: migration, nationality and identity
Appendix: statistical summary of project interviews
Bibliography
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Fachbereich: Regionalgeschichte
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780719071331
ISBN-10: 071907133X
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Hammerton, A. James
Thomson, Alistair
Hersteller: Manchester University Press
Maße: 234 x 156 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: A. James Hammerton (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 28.09.2012
Gewicht: 0,611 kg
Artikel-ID: 102409042
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