Genesis of International Mass Migration

The British Case, 1750-1900

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Why did very large numbers of people begin to depart the British Isles for the New Worlds after about 1770? They were the vanguard of mass economic migration, the carriers of new global labour forces, agents of dispossession and settlement, of family dreams, of individual aspirations, of imperial strategies. But it was new in scale, and it was a pioneering movement, a rehearsal for modern international migration. These first mass inter-continental stirrings began most of all in the British Isles.What activated these great exchanges of humanity, the precursors of so much modern population transfer and turmoil around the globe? This is a question in the middle of most genealogies and central to the making of the modern world.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2018-07-11
Mått156 x 234 x 17 mm
Vikt594 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor296
FörlagManchester University Press
ISBN9781526131485

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1 The migration mystery2 Islands of exit3 Before the discontinuity and the start of modern times4 West Sussex and the rural south5 The discontinuity6 The North American theatre7 Migration in Shropshire and the English Midlands 8 Agrarian turmoil and the activation of mass mobility 9 West Cork and North Tipperary 10 The Australasian case11 Upland adjustments: west Wales and Swaledale and the sequences of migration 12 Cornwall, Kent and London13 Remote departures: the Scottish Highlands14 The Irish case15 The European extension 16 British emigration and the Malthus model17 A general view of the origins of modern emigration and the British caseIndex