Migration in German history

Schriften des Institut für Migrationsforschung und Interkuturelle Studien, Osnabrück: Universitätsverlag Rasch:

Vol. l: Klaus J. Bade (ed.), Migration ‐ Ethnizität ‐ Konflikt: Systemfragen und Fallstudien (1996). Pp.458. DM68. ISBN 3 930595 36 3

Vol.2: Adolf Wennemann, Arbeit im Rheinland: Italiener im Rheinland und Westfalen des späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts (1997). Pp.224. DM46. ISBN 3 930595 37 0

Vol.3: Klaus J. Bade (ed.), Fremde im Land: Zuwanderung und Eingliederung im Raum Niedersachsen seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg 1997. Pp.336. DM38. ISBN 3 930595 39 7

Vol.4: Erberhard Eichendorfer (ed.), Social Security of Migrants in the European Community Tomorrow (1997). Pp.129. DM34. ISBN 3 930595 38 9

Vol.5, Albrecht Weber (ed.), Einwanderungsland Bundesrepublik in der Europäischen Union (1997). Pp.381. DM56. ISBN 3 930595 84 2

Studien zur Historischen Migrationsforschung, Osnabrück: Universitätsverlag Rasch:

Vol.l: Volker Ackermann, Der ‘Echte’ Flüchtling: Deutsche Vertriebene und Flüchtlinge aus der DDR 1945–1961 (1995). Pp.318. DM56. ISBN 3 930595 32 X

Vol.2: René del Fabbro, Transalpini: Italienische Arbeitswanderung nach Südwestdeutschland im Kaiserreich, 1870–1918 (1996). Pp.320. DM52. ISBN 3 930595 40 0

Vol.3: Axel Lubinski, Entlassen aus dem Untertaneneverband: Die Amerika‐Auswanderung aus Mecklenburg‐Strelitz im 19. Jahrhundert (1997). Pp.328. DM46. ISBN 3 930595 41 9

Vol.4: Hannelore Oberpenning, Migration und Fernhandel im ‘Tödden‐System ‘: Wanderhändler aus dem nördlicen Münsterland im mittleren und nödlichen Europa (1996). Pp.424. DM54. ISBN 3 930595 34 6

Vol.5: Uwe Reich, Aus Cottbus und Arnswalde in die Neue Welt: Amerika‐Auswanderung aus Ostelbien im 19. Jahrhundert (1997). Pp.272. DM46. ISBN 3 930595 42 7     

‘The hidden hand’: British myths about German control of Britain during the first world war

No national or racial minority in twentieth century Britain has endured hostility as destructive and widespread as that faced by Germans during the Great War. As a result of the instability created by the conflict, enemy aliens endured constant vilification in the press, wholesale destruction of their property, and internment or repatriation. Underlying these events there developed a complex conspiracy theory about German influence within Britain which became widely accepted by 1918.     

Review article: National and racial minorities in total war

Ansel Adams, Manzanar (London: Secker & Warburg, 1989). xx + 167pp. £15.

Joseph Kennedy, British Civilians and the Japanese War in Malaya and Singapore, 1941–45 (London: Macmillan, 1987). xii + 167pp. £29.50.

Tony Kushner, The Persistence of Prejudice: Antisemitism in British Society During the Second World War (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989). ix + 257pp. £29.95.

François Lafitte, The Internment of Aliens (London: Libris, 1988, 1990). xxiv + 266pp. £24.95 hb; £8.95 pb.

Abraham Lewin, A Cup of Tears: A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988, 1990). vi + 310pp. £14.95 hb, £4.99 pb.

Frederick C. Luebke, Germans in Brazil: A Comparative History of Cultural Conflict During World War I (London: Louisiana State University Press, 1987). xii + 248pp. £30.90.

Graham A. Smith, When Jim Crow Met John Bull: Black American Soldiers in World War II Britain (London: I.B. Taurus, 1987). 265pp. £14.95.     

Book Reviews

William B. Cohen, The French Encounter with Africans: White Responses to Blacks, 1530–1880. (Bloomington and London, Indiana University Press, 1980). Pp.xix + 360, incl. notes and index. £13·50.

Study Commission on US Policy Toward Southern Africa, South Africa: Time Running Out. (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1981). Pp. xxvii + 517. Illus. $8·95.

Henry A. Gemery and Jan S. Hogendorn (eds.), The Uncommon Market: Essays in the Economic History of the Atlantic Slave Trade. (London, Academic Press, 1979). Pp. xvi +448. $24·00.

Leon F. Litwack, Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery. (London, The Athlone Press, 1980). Pp. xvi + 651. £14·50.

Paul D. Escott, Slavery Remembered: A Record of Twentieth‐Century Slave Narratives. (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1979), Pp. xv + 221. Illus. US $12·50.

Ronald T. Takaki, Iron Cages: Race and Culture in Nineteenth‐Century America. (London, The Athlone Press, 1980). Pp. xviii + 361. Ulus., tables, notes, bibliog., and index. $12·50.

Ronald H. Bayor, Neighbors in Conflict: The Irish, Germans, Jews, and Italians of New York City, 1929–1941 (Baltimore and London, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980). Pp. xiv + 232. £3·50.

Peter Kwong, Chinatown, N.Y.: Labor and Politics, 1930–1950. (New York and London, Monthly Review Press, 1979). Pp. 178. Illus. £7·60.

Jerry White, Rothschild Buildings: Life in an East End Tenement Block, 1887–1920. (London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980). Pp. xviii + 301. £6·95.

The Runnymede Trust and The Radical Statistics Race Group, Britain's Black Population. (London, Heinemann Educational, 1980). Pp. xiii + 160. £4·95.

Anne Aresty Namon, The Jew in the Victorian Novel—Some Relationships Between Prejudice and Art. (New York, AMS Press Inc., 1980). Pp. 238. £6·50.     

The imperial war museum as a source of information for historians of immigrant minorities: The example of Germans in Britain during the first World War

This article looks at the importance of the Imperial War Museum as a source of information for historians of immigrant minorities with reference to the plight of the Germans in Britain during the First World War. Three classes of documents are considered. First, the memoirs of a German, Richard Noschke, which discuss his experiences both inside and outside internment camps. Second, a number of diaries kept by English people, which deal particularly with ‘spy fever’. And third, pamphlets and journals of the British Empire Union, the most important anti‐alien organization of the war years.