Huguenot Heritage: The History and Contribution of the Huguenots in Britain (Second Revised Edition)

Author:   Robin D. Gwynn
Publisher:   Liverpool University Press
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
ISBN:  

9781902210346


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   01 January 2000
Format:   Hardback
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Huguenot Heritage: The History and Contribution of the Huguenots in Britain (Second Revised Edition)


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A full length study of the Huguenots in Britain.

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Author:   Robin D. Gwynn
Publisher:   Liverpool University Press
Imprint:   Liverpool University Press
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.592kg
ISBN:  

9781902210346


ISBN 10:   1902210344
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   01 January 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction; An Exposed Minority; Walloon and Huguenot Settlements in England; Refugees and the English Government; Crafts and Trades; Professions; Huguenots and their Churches; Opposition; Huguenots and the Later Stuarts; Huguenots and the Defeat of Louis XIV's France; The Process of Assimilation; Appendix: Tracing Huguenot Ancestors; Bibliography; Index.

Reviews

The best survey of the Huguenots in England--a significant work of scholarship and a work easily accessible to the general reader. This new, significantly updated, edition is welcomed. --English Historical Review


The best survey of the Huguenots in England--a significant work of scholarship and a work easily accessible to the general reader. This new, significantly updated, edition is welcomed. --English Historical Review


""Rarely does anyone, let alone a reviewer, wish that a book were twice its length, but this one is so informative, balanced and crisply written that it leaves the reader hungry for more."" --Bernard Levin ""The best survey of the Huguenots in England--a significant work of scholarship and a work easily accessible to the general reader. This new, significantly updated, edition is welcomed."" --English Historical Review


Author Information

Robin Gwynn is a historian of Early Modern England, formerly Reader in History at Massey University, New Zealand. His speciality has long been the study of Huguenot refugees and the French communities in Britain, and in 1985 he was Director of the Huguenot Heritage tercentenary commemoration under the patronage of H.M. The Queen. His books include the widely acclaimed Huguenot Heritage (2nd edn, Sussex Academic Press, 2001), and editions of later seventeenth century letters and consistory minutes of the largest of the many French churches in England.

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