German Immigrants in Britain during the 19th Century, 1815-1914

Panikos Panayi Senior Lecturer in History,De Montfort University, Leicester

'Dr Panayi is a leading scholar on the study of German immigration to Britain and [this book] is highly informative and comprehensive.'Lucio Sponza, University of Westminster 'Panayi's fine work can be characterized as an introductory history, not mainly primary source-based, but resting on a wide range of secondary sources, and drawing heavily on the field of German-American Studies, thus leading to numerous interesting comparisons and conclusions between German-American and British-German history.' H-Net'... well researched background ... I really enjoyed reading the book and it has a wealth of material on all aspects of German migration to Britain.'Gwen Davis, Anglo-German History Society'... highly informative ... the book underlines once again that this is an extremely interesting topic for histo

• The pre-19th century background; German migration to Britain during the 19th century; residential, age and gender and occupational distribution; ethnic organizations - religion, philanthropy, culture and politics; British attitudes towards Germany, Germans and German immigrants.