Alien Immigrants to England
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ISBN13: 9780217163200
Paperback|9780217163200
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: INTRODUCTION 1. So many diverse tribes and stocks have contributed to the formation of the English nation that it is not easy to draw a line between the native and the foreign elements. After all, the Jutes and Saxons and Angles were themselves immigrants, who came to this island in historic times; the main stock was transplanted, and is no more native to the soil than the branches which have been grafted into it from time to time. It seems a little arbitrary to fix on any definite date and designate the immigrants of the earlier times, component parts of the English race, while we speak of the later arrivals as aliens. There can, however, be little doubt that we must at least go back to the time preceding the Norman Conquest. Though the English nation, was but imperfectly consolidated before that event, there was so much custom common to all the branches of the Teutonic stock, then settled in the southern part of the island, that there was already a dim sense of nationality among the people; and immediately after the Conquest, the English and the Norman elements of the population, living respectively by English and Norman law, could be readily distinguished. In the time of the Confessor the English people had ceased to be a congeries of kindred, but hostile tribes; and the foreigners, who came among them from Normandy, were looked upon as intruders. The laws of Edward the Confessor served at least as a traditional expression for the English custom, which had been preserved in part, and set aside in part, by the Norman king and the Norman immigrants. New settlers at that date and under these conditions cannot be regarded as an original element in the English stock. But were they the first of the alien immigrants ? What shall we say of the Roman missionaries who planted C...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217163200 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217163203 |
| Weight | 0.93 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.64 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 284 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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