A. James Hammerton, Alistair Thomson

'Ten Pound Poms'

A life history of British postwar emigration to Australia

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Produktbeschreibung

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 -- .

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 622g
• ISBN-13: 9780719071331
• ISBN-10: 071907133X
• Artikelnr.: 21786950

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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