Strangers settled here amongst us : policies, perceptions, and the presence of aliens in Elizabethan England / Laura Hunt Yungblut.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hume, Laura Hunt, 1961-

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Noncitizens.

History.

Immigrants.

Ethnic relations.

Ethnic attitudes.

Religious refugees.

Political refugees.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1558-1603.

Great Britain.

Politics and government.

Political refugees--England--History--16th century.

Religious refugees--England--History--16th century.

Ethnic attitudes--England--History--16th century.

England--Ethnic relations--History--16th century.

England.

Great Britain--History--Elizabeth, 1558-1603.

Immigrants--English--History--16th century.

Noncitizens--England--History--16th century.

Physical Description:

ix, 178 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 1996.

Summary:

A pathbreaking study that sheds new light on the impact of immigrants from the Continent on Elizabethan England and the policy decisions that their presence prompted. Much like governments facing immigration issues today, England's sixteenth-century governors struggled to strike balances in their policies dealing with the influx of immigrants who sought escape from religious persecution and the wars that then wrecked the Continent. The resulting dichotomy of welcome and control explored in this study characterizes the relationship between native and immigrants to the present day. "Strangers Settled Here Among Us" provides important insights in the history of immigration and the search for balance -- as relevant today as it was in the sixteenth century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-172) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0415021448

OCLC:

33104026