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The English in Australia

James Jupp author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:11th May '04

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This 2004 book looks at Australia in terms of English immigration and settlement over two centuries.

This 2004 book provides fascinating insights into the impact the English have had on Australian life. Anyone interested in tracing their ancestry - both Australian and English - will find this book compelling reading.Australia has historically had very strong links with England, and the English have always accounted for a significant portion of the Australian population. In this 2004 book, James Jupp provides fascinating insights into the impact the English have had on Australian life. Beginning with familiar stories of convicts, explorers, and early settlers, and then the various waves of immigration over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the book concludes with reflections on today's English immigrants, now considered 'foreigners'. Anyone interested in tracing their ancestry - both Australian and English - will find this book compelling reading, and helpful in bringing to life senses of the places, conditions, and occupations that their ancestry lived through.

'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

ISBN: 9780521542951

Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm

Weight: 270g

226 pages