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Britannia's children: Migration from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales since 1600. Eric Richards. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 320 pp. US$29.95 hc; Irish migrants to the Canadas: A new approach, 2nd ed. Bruce Elliott. Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004. 408 pp. $75.00 hc; $32.95 sc.
Edwin Guillet described the movement of populations from the British Isles across the Atlantic as the "Third Great Migration"--the two previous "greats" being the Barbarian invasions of the Roman Empire in the fifth century, and the Mongol irruption into Europe in the thirteenth. But if enthusiasm for the glories of Anglo-Saxon dispersion has waned among ethnic historians today (Guillet wrote in 1937), the impact of English-speaking migration in Canada and throughout the world can hardly be ignored. And if conservative visions of "Anglosphere" are as chimerical today as were nineteenth-century dreams of Zollverein, the omnipresence of Anglophonie seems inescapable, at least until some other culture (Islam? The Chinese?) finds a way to supersede it.
At first blush, Britannia's children appears to be in the quasi-Guillet mould of celebratory migration history in which,... |
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