Immigrants in Tudor and Early Stuart England

by Goose, Nigel; Luu, Lien

• ISBN13: 9781903900147
• ISBN10: 190390014X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-05-01
• Publisher: Sussex Academic Press

Summary

It is now over 100 years since Cunningham wrote Alien Immigrants to England, which focused heavily upon the impact of immigration in later 16th and early 17th century England: it has yet to be supplanted by a comprehensive, up-to-date survey. Although much research has been completed on the subject, particularly during the past three decades, relatively little of this has appeared in mainstream history journals, while more general surveys have tended to concentrate upon the second wave of migration that followed the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. This book is a major reassessment of the size, nature, status, impact (economic, social, cultural), and international connections of Dutch and French immigrants in Tudor and early-Stuart England, written by a team of internationally recognised scholars. The volume will comprise three sections. Part One examines aspects of immigrant communities in England, including their origins, legal status, situation within the labour market and government policy towards immigrants. Part Two focuses upon their impact, particularly in economic and cultural terms, but also with regard to their reception by, and assimilation within, the host communities. Part Three discusses aspects of the continuing relationship between immigrants and the wider international community.

Author Biography

Nigel Goose is a leading scholar in the fields of early modern English urban history and historical demography, and has published extensively on these topics over the past 20 years. He is currently Professor of Social & Economic History and Director of the Centre for Regional and Local History at the University of Hertfordshire. Lien Bich Luu is a specialist in the history of immigration to England in the early modern period. She has written extensively for academic journals. She is lecturer in history at the University of Hertfordshire.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
List of Tables and Maps	ix
List of Abbreviations	x
Introduction
1 Immigrants in Tudor and Early Stuart England	1	(40)
Nigel Goose
Part I Immigrant Communities in England
2 Immigrant Roots: The Geographical Origins of Newcomers from the Low Countries in Tudor England	41	(16)
Raymond Fagel
3 Natural-Born Versus Stranger-Born Subjects: Aliens and their Status in Elizabethan London	57	(19)
Lien Luu
4 "[I]mployment for all handes that will worke": Immigrants, Guilds and the Labour Market in Early Seventeenth-Century London	76	(15)
Joseph P. Ward
Part II Immigrants and their Impact
5 "A Place of refuge and sanctuary of a holy Temple": Exile Communities and the Stranger Churches	91	(19)
Andrew Spicer
6 "Xenophobia" in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England: An Epithet Too Far?	110	(26)
Nigel Goose
7 Immigrants and English Economic Development in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries	136	(25)
Nigel Goose
8 Immigrant Cultures in Tudor and Stuart England	161	(16)
Raingard Esser
Part III Immigrants and the International Community
9 The Strangers, their Churches and the Continent: Continuing and Changing Connexions	177	(15)
Charles G.D. Littleton
10 Alien Communities in Transition, 1570-1650	192	(19)
Lien Luu
11 Immigrants, the Indigenous Community and International Calvinism	211	(12)
David Trim
Conclusion
12 Alien Immigrants to England, One Hundred Years On	223	(6)
Lien Luu
Consolidated Bibliography	229	(22)
Index	251