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

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

by Eric Richards
The genesis of international mass migration: The British case, 1750-1900

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

by Eric Richards

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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.

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ISBN-13: 9781526131508
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Publication date: 07/11/2018
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 296
File size: 770 KB

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

Preface

Epigraphs

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
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