Britannia's Children: Emigration from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland since 1600

by Eric Richards

Overview

Twenty-five million emigrants have left the British Isles since 1600, mainly travelling to America or to parts of the British Empire around the world. Britannia's Children is the first account of emigration from the British Isles as a whole, including England, Scotland and Ireland. Tracing the stages of this extraordinary movement from the days of the Mayflower to modern times, Eric Roberts shows the variety of motives that drove men and women to make the most momentous decisions of their lives as well as providing a mass of individual stories, voyages, destinations and fates.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781852854416
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/14/2004
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

Eric Roberts is a Professor of History at Flinders University, Australia.

Table of Contents

	Illustrations	vii
	Preface	ix
	Acknowledgements	xi
1	Leaving the Islands	1
2	The Westward Thrust	17
3	Atlantic Take-Off	33
4	Crossing the Atlantic	49
5	The Reluctant Diaspora	67
6	The Age of Industrialisation	91
7	The Beginnings of Mass Emigration	117
8	Full Spate	151
9	The High Noon of Victorian Emigration	175
10	The Last Atlantic Wave	207
11	Empire and Retreat	233
12	The End of the Diaspora	255
13	Retrospect	279
14	Scatterlings	293
	Notes	305
	Bibliography	365
	Index	371