Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: colin holmes

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  • AN EAST END LEGACY
    COLIN HOLMES AND ANNE J. KERSHEN
    An East End Legacy is a memorial volume for William J Fishman, whose seminal works on the East End of London in the late nineteenth century have served as a vital starting point for much of the later work on the various complex web of relations in that quarter of the capital. A variety of leading scholars utilise the insight of Fishman’s work to present a wide range of insights...

    $1,160.00

  • SEARCHING FOR LORD HAW-HAW
    COLIN HOLMES
    Searching for Lord Haw-Haw is an authoritative account of the political lives of William Joyce. He became notorious as a fascist, an anti-Semite and then as a Second World War traitor when, assuming the persona of Lord Haw-Haw, he acted as a radio propagandist for the Nazis. It is an endlessly compelling story of simmering hope, intense frustration, renewed anticipation and ult...

    $1,160.00

  • IMMIGRANTS AND MINORITIES IN BRITISH SOCIETY
    COLIN HOLMES
    This book, first published in 1978, examines the debate over immigration into Britain and raises the important point that the existence in the country of immigrant and minority groups is nothing new. Britain has, in fact, attracted newcomers throughout most of its history and it is to remedy the deficiency of research and knowledge about these early immigration processes that t...

    $1,260.00

  • A TOLERANT COUNTRY?
    COLIN HOLMES
    In this book, first published in 1991, Colin Holmes examines responses to those immigrants and refugees who have been coming to Britain since the late nineteenth century as well as the perception and treatment of British-born minorities. He attempts to explain the hostility which these groups have encountered and reveals behind complex feelings and circumstances which have ofte...

    $1,260.00

  • JOHN BULL'S ISLAND
    COLIN HOLMES
    There is a strong but unreliable view that immigration is a marginal and recent phenomenon. In fact, immigrants and refugees have come to Britain throughout its recorded history. In this book, first published in 1988, Colin Holmes looks at this period in depth and asks: who were the newcomers and why were they coming? What were the distinctive features of their economic and soc...

    $1,320.00

  • ANTI-SEMITISM IN BRITISH SOCIETY, 1876-1939
    COLIN HOLMES
    This is the first detailed study of anti-semitism, as an ideology, among the British. First published in 1979, it concentrates on the crucial period between 1876 and 1939 when, against a background of Jewish immigration, war or the threat of war, and social and economic unrest, hostility towards the Jewish community reached its peak. Colin Holmes identifies the main strands of ...

    $1,360.00