Description: Further DetailsTitle: Good-bye, PiccadillyCondition: NewSubtitle: BRITISH WAR BRIDES IN AMERICAISBN-10: 025206528XEAN: 9780252065286ISBN: 9780252065286Publisher: University of Illinois PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 02/01/1996Description: As much of the world tried to return to normal living and working patterns after World War II, some 70,000 British women chose to be uprooted from the homeland they knew and loved. These were British war brides, a uniformly young group who by marrying American servicemen became part of the largest single group of female immigrants to the United States. Though the women came to the U.S. from all parts of the British Isles, they were an unusually homogeneous group, averaging 23 years of age, from working- or lower-middle-class families and having completed mandatory schooling to the age of fourteen. For the most part they emigrated alone and didn't move into an existing immigrant population. Jenel Virden draws on records in the National Archives in Washington, D.C., and the Public Record Office in London, as well as questionnaires and personal interviews, in relating the women's story. Virden finds that the marriages actually took place in spite of, rather than because of, the war. And, while the women benefited from special nonrestrictive immigration legislation--and found public welcomes and a good deal of favorable publicity when they arrived--they also had much in common with other immigrant groups, including a strong sense of ethnic identity.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 15mmAuthor: Jenel VirdenGenre: HistoryBook Series: Statue of Liberty Ellis IslandTopic: Military HistoryItem Weight: 286gRelease Year: 1996 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Good-bye, Piccadilly
Title: Good-bye, Piccadilly
Subtitle: BRITISH WAR BRIDES IN AMERICA
ISBN-10: 025206528X
EAN: 9780252065286
ISBN: 9780252065286
Release Date: 02/01/1996
Release Year: 1996
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Topic: Military History
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Name: Good-Bye, Piccadilly : British War Brides in America
Language: English
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 1996
Subject: United States / 20th Century, Military / World War II, Emigration & Immigration
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 10.1 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Jenel Virden
Subject Area: Social Science, History
Series: Statue of Liberty Ellis Island Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
