The English in Australia

Australia is the second most English country in the world, yet, taken as the “norm”, this largest immigrant group has never been analysed in detail. Dr James Jupp provides fascinating new insights into the impact the English have had on Australian life in the first book ever written on the subject. Beginning with familiar stories of convicts, explorers, and early settlers, and then the various waves of immigration over the 19th and 20th centuries, the book concludes with reflections on today's english immigrants, now considered 'foreigners'. Anyone interested in tracing their English ancestry will find this book compelling reading, and helpful in bringing to life senses of the places, conditions, occupations, and so forth that their ancestors lived through.

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'James Jupp has presented his overview of this fascinating topic in an accessible, scholarly style, which is also suitable for those with no prior extensive knowledge of Australia or its historical background. … The English in Australia is an illuminating and scholarly read.' Zeitschrift für Australienstudien

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Product details

• Date Published: June 2006
• format: Adobe eBook Reader
• isbn: 9780511192050

• contains: 40 b/w illus. 5 maps
• availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.