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The Essays In This Collection Represent The First Attempt To Bring Together The History Of Racial Violence In Modern Britain. During The Period From 1840 Until 1950, As Well As The Years Before And Since Then, No Immigrant Grouping In Britian Has Escaped Attacks Upon Its Persons And Property.... The Essays In This Volume Focus Upon Attacks Upon Pre-commonwealth Immigrants. They Consist Of A Combination Of Empirical And More General Studies.. 1. Anti-immigrant Riots In Nineteenth- And Twentieth-century Britain / Panikos Panayi -- 2. Varieties Of Anti-irish Behaviour In Britain, 1846-1922 / Alan O'day -- 3. William Murphy, The Orange Order And Communal Violence: The Irish In West Cumberland, 1871-84 / Donald M. Macraild -- 4. Anti-german Riots In Britain During The First World War / Panikos Panayi -- 5. The 1919 Riots / Jacqueline Jenkinson -- 6. Blaming The Blackshirts: The Authorities And The Anti-jewish Disturbances In The 1930s / Richard Thurlow -- 7. The Anti-italian Riots, June 1940 / Lucio Sponza -- 8. Anti-semitism And Austerity: The August 1947 Riots In Britain / Tony Kushner. Edited By Panikos Panayi. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.