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The Battle for the Migrants : Introduction of Steamshipping on the North Atlantic and Its Impact on the European Exodus.
This book approaches the well-documented study of European mass migration to the United States of America from the viewpoint of mass migration as a business venture. The overall purpose is to demonstrate that maritime and migration histories are interlinked and dependent on a deeper understanding of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Liverpool University Press,
2017.
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| Colección: | Research in Maritime History LUP.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Contents; About the Author; Acknowledgements; Figures and Tables; Introduction; Part I: State Policies and Their Influence on the Connections between Maritime and Migration Networks, 1830-1870; Part II: The Impact of Steam Shipping on Transatlantic Migration, 1870-1914; Chapter 1: The Role of Middlemen; Chapter 2: Competition and Collusion: The Growing Pains of Passenger Shipping Conferences; Chapter 3: The IMM Merger and Further Consolidations in the Shipping Industry; Chapter 4: The Nationalization of American Migration Policies and the Visible Hand of the Shipping Lobby.
- Chapter 5: Shipping Companies' Interference with the Enactment and Implementation of Immigration Laws during the Progressive EraConclusion; Appendix 1: Rates of the NDLV Members for the American Market; Appendix 2: HAL Total Passengers, 1873-1914; Appendix 3: Total Passengers of the Main Services on the North Atlantic and Number of Sailings, 1899-1914; Appendix 4: HAL Through Rates to and from Hinterland Destinations, 1893-1907; Appendix 5: New York Agents and Agents under Bond, 1897-1909; Appendix 6: Advertisements by the HAL in American Newspapers; Bibliography.