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This exciting collection of interdisciplinary essays studies the cultural history of Coventry's global populations.

Coventry has long been a place where diverse cultures mix. Attracting workers, traders and artisans, as well as migrants, refugees and students, the city is home to an incredible range of global and local communities and yet its place in the history of English cities, urban studies, and British social history has been obscure. Global Coventry: Migration, Diaspora and Place-Making offers an insightful and novel collection of essays by historians, sociologists, geographers and community-based scholars to make the case for Coventry's significance across these disciplines.

Focusing in particular on Coventry's Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities but also well beyond, Global Coventry contributes to histories of place-making by foregrounding race, gender, class and sexuality as essential to our understanding of the city.

Across thirteen chapters, Global Coventry provides a wide-ranging analysis of the historical and social trajectories which brought people from all over the world to the city and how they made sense of their lives. The contributions expand on Coventry's global and imperial connections, its built and affective environments, and the creative and contested belonging forged by its migrant and refugee communities. They show the strength of Coventry's global entanglements, and its effects in generating a distinct urban space

If you are interested in urban studies, histories of place-making and regional multiculture in modern British history, Global Coventryis essential reading.