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Wealth and Disaster : Atlantic Migrations from a Pyrenean Town in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries /

"In 1729, Marc-Antoine Lamerenx, a minor French nobleman, set sail for Saint-Domingue. Twenty years later, peasant Jean Mouscardy also made the long and difficult journey to Saint-Domingue. Although the men were not related and had little in common, they hailed from the same Pyrenean town, La B...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Force, Pierre (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Origins of a migration network
  • The coffee boom and the jealousy of trade
  • House-based societies and emigration
  • War and property rights
  • Nation, citizenship and Atlantic migrations.