Tony Kushner is Professor of History and Director of the Parkes Institute, University of Southampton

alive with the spirit of adventure that informs migrationIn The Battle of Britishness he [Kushner] shows his mastery of the field through interweaving constant connections between past and present journeys. [...] Building on Kushner's earlier analyses of the public histories and collective memory of immigration to Britain, the book is a tour de force in its balance of breadth and nuance.'Kushner underscores that remembering is above all a political process of selection and exclusion, and that national memories as well as migrant recasting of narratives are part and parcel of this process. Beyond the author's obvious craftsmanship and empathy for his subjects, what emerges from this is the complexity of the struggle for meaning.'

• Section 1: Introduction and contextsIntroduction1. Britishness, entry and exclusion2. Constructing migrant journeysSection 2: Early journeys, 1685 to 18803. Huguenot journeys: Constructing the refugees4. Volga Germans in the late nineteenth century: from refugees to foreign paupersSection 3: The Nazi era5. Constructing (another) ideal refugee journey: the Kinder6. The St Louis and after: Refugee journeys without end?Section 4: Colonial and postcolonial journeys7. The Empire Windrush: The making of an iconic British journey8. Stowaways and others: racism and alternative journeys into BritishnessSection 5: Conclusions9. Britishness and the nature of migrant journeysBibliographyIndex

Tony Kushner is Professor of History and Director of the Parkes Institute, University of Southampton

alive with the spirit of adventure that informs migrationIn The Battle of Britishness he [Kushner] shows his mastery of the field through interweaving constant connections between past and present journeys. [...] Building on Kushner's earlier analyses of the public histories and collective memory of immigration to Britain, the book is a tour de force in its balance of breadth and nuance.'Kushner underscores that remembering is above all a political process of selection and exclusion, and that national memories as well as migrant recasting of narratives are part and parcel of this process. Beyond the author's obvious craftsmanship and empathy for his subjects, what emerges from this is the complexity of the struggle for meaning.'

• Section 1: Introduction and contextsIntroduction1. Britishness, entry and exclusion2. Constructing migrant journeysSection 2: Early journeys, 1685 to 18803. Huguenot journeys: Constructing the refugees4. Volga Germans in the late nineteenth century: from refugees to foreign paupersSection 3: The Nazi era5. Constructing (another) ideal refugee journey: the Kinder6. The St Louis and after: Refugee journeys without end?Section 4: Colonial and postcolonial journeys7. The Empire Windrush: The making of an iconic British journey8. Stowaways and others: racism and alternative journeys into BritishnessSection 5: Conclusions9. Britishness and the nature of migrant journeysBibliographyIndex

Tony Kushner is Professor of History and Director of the Parkes Institute, University of Southampton

alive with the spirit of adventure that informs migrationIn The Battle of Britishness he [Kushner] shows his mastery of the field through interweaving constant connections between past and present journeys. [...] Building on Kushner's earlier analyses of the public histories and collective memory of immigration to Britain, the book is a tour de force in its balance of breadth and nuance.'Kushner underscores that remembering is above all a political process of selection and exclusion, and that national memories as well as migrant recasting of narratives are part and parcel of this process. Beyond the author's obvious craftsmanship and empathy for his subjects, what emerges from this is the complexity of the struggle for meaning.'

• Section 1: Introduction and contextsIntroduction1. Britishness, entry and exclusion2. Constructing migrant journeysSection 2: Early journeys, 1685 to 18803. Huguenot journeys: Constructing the refugees4. Volga Germans in the late nineteenth century: from refugees to foreign paupersSection 3: The Nazi era5. Constructing (another) ideal refugee journey: the Kinder6. The St Louis and after: Refugee journeys without end?Section 4: Colonial and postcolonial journeys7. The Empire Windrush: The making of an iconic British journey8. Stowaways and others: racism and alternative journeys into BritishnessSection 5: Conclusions9. Britishness and the nature of migrant journeysBibliographyIndex