English Ethnicity and Culture in North America edited by David T. Gleeson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gleeson, David T., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English--North America--History.

English.

British Americans--Social life and customs.

British Americans.

British Americans--Ethnic identity.

British Americans--History.

North America--Civilization--British influences.

North America.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (pages cm)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Other Title:

English ethnicity and culture in North America

Place of Publication:

Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2017]

Summary:

"As Van Vugt's analysis of English immigrants in the United States is an appropriate place to begin this collection, so Sutton's essay is a fitting one to conclude it. Sutton confirms in many ways a belief shared by all of us involved in this project: that as with other ethnicities in North America, English culture did not disappear into a larger mainstream but instead was adapted, merged, and transformed into something hybrid. St. Patrick's Day, for example, began in North America as an exclusive ethnic festival for Irish immigrants, but it has been transformed into something that is as much, if not more, American as it is Irish. Preserved by ethnic associations for their future "hyphenated" generations, this idea of a symbiotic assimilation of immigrant cultures in the U.S. and Canadian mainstreams is accepted by scholars. We believe that this applies to English literature, pageantry, commemorations, cricket, and much more, and we hope that this initial foray will encourage others to pursue the numerous other sources of English ethnicity in the United States and Canada and how they were transformed on the western side of the Atlantic" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

"Introduction: England in America

Relocating the English diaspora in America / William Van Vugt

Ethnic conflict and English associational culture in America : the Benevolent Order of the Society of St. George, 1870-1920 / Donald M. MacRaild

Mutual, ethnic, and diasporic: the Sons of England in Canada, c. 1880 to 1910 / Tanja Bueltmann

"Lancashire in America" : the culture of English textile mill operatives in fall river, massachusetts, 1875-1904 / Kathryn G. Lamontagne

The Church of England and English clergymen in the united states, 1783-1861 / Joseph Hardwick

England and the antebellum South / David T. Gleeson

"Time and circumstance work great changes in public sentiment": royal statues and monuments in the United States of America, 1770-2010 / James McConnel

"The game of the English" : cricket and the spread of English culture in North America, 1830-1900 / Dean Allen

Reviving English folk customs in America in the early twentieth century / Monika Smialkowska

The morris diaspora: transplanting an old English tradition or inventing a new American one? / Mike Sutton."

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781611177879

1611177871

OCLC:

1004378148