The Forgotten Majority

The Forgotten Majority
Author: Margrit Schulte Beerbühl
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2014-10-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1782384480

The “forgotten majority” of German merchants in London between the end of the Hanseatic League and the end of the Napoleonic Wars became the largest mercantile Christian immigrant group in the eighteenth century. Using previously neglected and little used evidence, this book assesses the causes of their migration, the establishment of their businesses in the capital, and the global reach of the enterprises. As the acquisition of British nationality was the admission ticket to Britain’s commercial empire, it investigates the commercial function of British naturalization policy in the early modern period, while also considering the risks of failure and chance for a new beginning in a foreign environment. As more German merchants integrated into British commercial society, they contributed to London becoming the leading place of exchange between the European continent, Russia, and the New World.

Lists of Foreign Protestants, and Aliens, Resident in England 1618-1688

Lists of Foreign Protestants, and Aliens, Resident in England 1618-1688
Author: Wm Durrant Cooper
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2017-10-12
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780265194454

Excerpt from Lists of Foreign Protestants, and Aliens, Resident in England 1618-1688: From Returns in the State Paper Office The following pages contain lists, first, of the names of the French and other refugees who, in 1622, were resident in St. Martin's le-grand in London, or were engaged in the trades of cutlers (for which they made the metropolis famous, as it still remains), joiners, ceelers, a carvers, and tallow-chandlers; and also of the foreigners who were then resident in the principal places of refuge in England, viz. Canterbury, Maidstone, the Cinque Ports, Norwich, and Col chester; and, secondly, of those refugees who came into this country between the years 1678 and 1688, during the troubles preceding and immediately following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and to whom free letters of denization were granted by Charles II. And James II. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Masque and Opera in England, 1656-1688

Masque and Opera in England, 1656-1688
Author: Andrew Walkling
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2016-08-25
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1317099699

Masque and Opera in England, 1656–1688 presents a comprehensive study of the development of court masque and through-composed opera in England from the mid-1650s to the Revolution of 1688–89. In seeking to address the problem of generic categorization within a highly fragmentary corpus for which a limited amount of documentation survives, Walkling argues that our understanding of the distinctions between masque and opera must be premised upon a thorough knowledge of theatrical context and performance circumstances. Using extensive archival and literary evidence, detailed textual readings, rigorous tabular analysis, and meticulous collation of bibliographical and musical sources, this interdisciplinary study offers a host of new insights into a body of work that has long been of interest to musicologists, theatre historians, literary scholars and historians of Restoration court and political culture, but which has hitherto been imperfectly understood. A companion volume will explore the phenomenon of "dramatick opera" and its precursors on London’s public stages between the early 1660s and the first decade of the eighteenth century.

Lists of Foreign Protestants and Aliens, Resident in England 1618-1688

Lists of Foreign Protestants and Aliens, Resident in England 1618-1688
Author: William Durrant Cooper
Publisher: Andesite Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2017-08-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781375554190

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Alien Albion

Alien Albion
Author: Scott Oldenburg
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1442647191

Using both canonical and underappreciated texts, Alien Albion argues that early modern England was far less unified and xenophobic than literary critics have previously suggested. Juxtaposing literary texts from the period with legal, religious, and economic documents, Scott Oldenburg uncovers how immigrants to England forged ties with their English hosts and how those relationships were reflected in literature that imagined inclusive, multicultural communities. Through discussions of civic pageantry, the plays of dramatists including William Shakespeare, Thomas Dekker, and Thomas Middleton, the poetry of Anne Dowriche, and the prose of Thomas Deloney, Alien Albion challenges assumptions about the origins of English national identity and the importance of religious, class, and local identities in the early modern era.