Eric Richards

The genesis of international mass migration (eBook, ePUB)

The British case, 1750-1900

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The American University in Cairo Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526131508
• Artikelnr.: 55006171

Autorenporträt

Eric Richards is Emeritus Professor of History at Flinders University, Adelaide

Inhaltsangabe

1 The migration mystery 2 Islands of exit 3 Before the discontinuity and
the start of modern times 4 West Sussex and the rural south 5 The
discontinuity 6 The North American theatre 7 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 case 11 Upland
adjustments: west Wales and Swaledale and the sequences of migration 12
Cornwall, Kent and London 13 Remote departures: the Scottish Highlands 14
The Irish case 15 The European extension 16 British emigration and the
Malthus model 17 A general view of the origins of modern emigration and the
British case Index