The genesis of international mass migration : the British case, 1750-1900 /

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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 st...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Richards, Eric, 1940-2018 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2018]
Temas:
Emigration and immigration > History.
Migration, Internal > Great Britain > History.
Livres numériques.
Émigration et immigration > Histoire.
Migration intérieure > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
e-books.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Emigration and immigration.
Migration, Internal.
Great Britain > Emigration and immigration > History.
Great Britain.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The migration mystery
  • Islands of exit
  • Before the discontinuity and the start of modern times
  • West Sussex and the rural south
  • The discontinuity
  • The North American theatre
  • Migration in Shropshire and the English Midlands
  • Agrarian turmoil and the activation of mass mobility
  • West Cork and North Tipperary
  • The Australasian case
  • Upland adjustments: west Wales and Swaledale and the sequences of migration
  • Cornwall, Kent and London
  • Remote departures: the Scottish Highlands
  • The Irish case
  • The European extension
  • British emigration and the Malthus model.

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