Good-Bye, Piccadilly
British War Brides in America
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 di…
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- ISBN: 978-0-252-06528-6
- EAN: 9780252065286
- Produktnummer: 1582893
- Verlag: University of Illinois Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Masse: H15.1 cm x B22.9 cm x D1.2 cm 292 g
- Gewicht: 292
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
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