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From Strangers to Citizens
The Integration of Immigrant Communities in Britain, Ireland and Colonial America, 1550–1750

Edited by Randolph Vigne and Charles Littleton
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Between 1550 and 1750 tens of thousands of immigrants, many of them religious refugees escaping persecution on the Continent, settled in Britain and its colonies, and in Ireland. They brought with them their formidable energies and talents and quickly assimilated themselves into the host society. The essays range from general considerations of trends towards integration in the immigrant communities to detailed case-studies of the movement into British society of individual immigrants; from studies of popular attitudes and government policy towards the newcomers to examinations of relations within the immigrant communities themselves and their structures for self-sufficiency. The immigrants’ contributions to art, scholarship, manufacturing, theology and politics are also explored.

Published in association with the Huguenot Society of Great Britain & Ireland

Illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales The Johannes a Lasco Library, Emden – a statement by Dr Walter Schulz Introduction Part I The foundation of the stranger churches and their early years 1 The Netherlandish presence in England before the coming of the stranger churches, 1480–1560 Raymond Fagel 2 Bringing Reformed theology to England’s ‘rude and symple people’: Jean Véron, minister and author outside the stranger church community Carrie E. Euler 3 Discipline and integration: Jan Laski’s Church Order for the London Strangers’ Church Christoph Strohm 4 Nicolas des Gallars and the Genevan connection of the stranger churches Jeannine E. Olson 5 Acontius’s plea for tolerance Aart de Groot Part II The strangers and their churches in the late 16th and early 17th centuries 6 Europe in Britain: Protestant strangers and the English Reformation Patrick Collinson 7 Protestant refugees in Elizabethan England and confessional conflict in France and the Netherlands, 1562–c.1610 D. J. B. Trim 8 Fictitious shoemakers, agitated weavers and the limits of popular xenophobia in Elizabethan London Joseph P. Ward 9 The Dutch in Colchester in the 16th and 17th centuries: opposition and integration Nigel Goose 10 ‘Mayntayninge the indigente and nedie’: the institutionalization of social responsiblity in the case of the resident alien communities in Elizabethan Norwich and Colchester Laura Hunt Yungblut 11 Melting into the landscape: the story of the 17th-century Walloons in the Fens Jean Tsushima Part III Stranger craftsmen and artists 12 Insiders or outsiders? Overseas-born artists at the Jacobean court Karen Hearn 13 A Dutch ‘stranger . . . on the make’: Sir Peter Lely and the critical fortunes of a foreign painter Julia Marciari Alexander 14 Foreign artists and craftsmen and the introduction of the Rococo style in England Christine Riding 15 The production and patronage of David Willaume, Huguenot merchant goldsmith Eileen Goodway 16 Worthy of the monarch: immigrant craftsmen and the production of state beds, 1660–1714 Tessa Murdoch 17 Huguenot master weavers: exemplary Englishmen, 1700–c.1750 Natalie Rothstein Part IV Immigrants and intellectual life in England 18 Immigrants in the DNB and British cultural horizons, 1550–1750: the merchant, the traveller, the lexicographer and the apologist Vivienne Larminie 19 Maps, spiders, and tulips: the Cole–Ortelius–L’Obel family and the practice of science in early modern London Deborah E. Harkness 20 The Huguenots and Medicine Hugh Trevor-Roper 21 ‘That great and knowing virtuoso’: the French background and English refuge of Henri Justel Geoffrey Treasure 22 Huguenot self-fashioning: Sir Jean Chardin and the rhetoric of travel and travel writing S. Amanda Eurich 23 Jean-Théophile Desaguliers: d’une intégration réussie à l’Europe des savoirs Pierre Boutin 24 Emanuel Mendes da Costa: constructing a career in science Geoffrey Cantor Part V The ‘Other’ in Protestant England: Jews, Muslims, Africans and Orthodox Christians in Britain 25 London’s Portuguese Jewish community, 1540–1753 Edgar Samuel 26 Embarrassing relations: myths and realities of the Ashkenazi influx, 1650–1750 and beyond Michael Berkowitz 27 Slaves or free people? The status of Africans in England, 1550–1750 Peter D. Fraser 28 The first Turks and Moors in England Nabil Matar 29 Greeks and ‘Grecians’ in London: the ‘other’ strangers Claire S. Schen 30 Irish Jewry in the 17th and 18th centuries Gordon M. Weiner Part VI Non-British settlers in the British American colonies 31 Sephardic settlement in the British colonies of the Americas in the 17th and 18th centuries Yitzchak Kerem 32 Dutch merchants and colonists in the English Chesapeake: trade, migration and nationality in 17th-century Maryland and Virginia April Lee Hatfield 33 The Dutch in 17th-century New York City: minority or majority? Joyce D. Goodfriend 34 Anglican conformity and nonconformity among the Huguenots of colonial New York Paula Wheeler Carlo 35 Jacob Leisler and the Huguenot network in the English Atlantic world David William Voorhees 36 From ethnicity to assimilation: the Huguenots and the American immigration history paradigm Bertrand van Ruymbeke 37 Creating order in the American wilderness: state-church Germans without the state Jeffrey Jaynes Part VII The Huguenot immigration into England of the late 17th century 38 Rewriting the Church of England: Jean Durel, foreign Protestants and the polemics of Restoration Conformity John McDonnell Hintermaier 39 Henry Compton, Bishop of London (1676–1714) and foreign Protestants Sugiko Nishikawa 40 ‘An unruly and presumptuous rabble’: the reaction of the Spitalfields weaving community to the settlement of the Huguenots, 1660–90 Catherine Swindlehurst 41 Huguenot integration in late 17th- and 18th-century London: insights from records of the French Church and some relief agencies Eileen Barrett 42 Huguenot thought after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes: toleration, ‘Socinianism’, integration and Locke John Marshall 43 The newspaper The Post Man and its editor, Jean Lespinasse de Fonvive Itamar Raban 44 The birth of political consciousness among the Huguenot refugees and their descendants in England (c.1685–1750) Myriam Yardeni 45 The Huguenots in Britain, the ‘Protestant International’ and the defeat of Louis XIV Robin Gwynn Part VIII Huguenots in Ireland 46 Elites and assimilation: the question of leadership within Dublin’s Corps du Refuge, 1662–1740 Raymond Pierre Hylton 47 Conditions et préparation de l’intégration: le voyage de Charles de Sailly en Irlande (1693) et le projet d’Edit d’accueil Michelle Magdelaine 48 The integration of the Huguenots into the Irish Church: the case of Peter Drelincourt Jane McKee 49 Good faith: the military and the ministry in exile, or the memoirs of Isaac Dumont de Bostaquet and Jaques Fontaine Dianne Ressinger 50 Writing the self: Huguenot autobiography and the process of assimilation Ruth Whelan Part IX German and Huguenot immigrants in Britain and Ireland in the 18th century 51 The English reception of the Huguenots, Palatines and Salzburgers, 1680–1734: a comparative analysis Alison Olson 52 The Naturalization Act of 1709 and the settlement of Germans in Britain, Ireland and the colonies William O’Reilly 53 German immigrants and the London book trade, 1700–70 Graham Jefcoate 54 Naturalization and economic integration: the German merchant community in 18th-century London Margrit Schulte Beerbühl 55 ‘A dearer country’: the Frenchness of the Rev. Jean de la Fléchère of Madeley, a Methodist Church of England vicar Peter Forsaith 56 Archbishop Thomas Secker (1693–1768), Anglican identity and relations with foreign Protestants in the mid-18th century Robert Ingram 57 What’s in a name?: self-identifications of Huguenot réfugiées in 18th-century England Carolyn Lougee Chappell Contributors Index
“Even those of us who rejoice in the multicultural character of today’s United Kingdom often forget that this character – and our tradition of tolerance, of which the British can be proud – are not new phenomena. It helps to be reminded that today’s waves of refugees are only the latest of many; our understanding of contemporary opportunities and challenges, in this area as in so many others, can be enormously enhanced by a better grasp of our own history.” From the Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales “There is much in this volume that is arresting and new even to those well versed in the main narrative of the sixteenth and seventeenth century religious immigration. It is a fitting monument to a movement of a peoples that has shaped our cultural and intellectual heritage in extraordinarily rich and diverse ways.” English Historical Review “This valuable collection of essays has enriched the existing literature on immigration into Briain in the early modern period. With its extensive coverage of the topics, periods and areas, it is a useful reference work and has a great deal to offer both to specialists and the general public.” Local Population Studies “The Huguenot Society of Great Britain should be praised for its considerable efforts in organizing this important symposium… excellent contributions from Patrick Collinson, Jeannine E. Olson, Hugh Trevor-Roper, and J. B. Trim to mention but a few.” Albion “Ample and well-presented material on Huguenot craftsmen, artists, scientists, and intellectuals. In all, the book contains a wealth of information.” Huguenot Heritage

 

Publication Details

	Hardback ISBN:		978-1-902210-85-8
	Paperback ISBN:		978-1-902210-86-5
	Page Extent / Format:		400 pp. / 246 x 171 mm
	Release Date:		September 2001
	Illustrated:		Full colour plate section
	Hardback Price:		£49.50 / $75.00
	Paperback Price:		£25 / $35.00