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Autore |
Errington Elizabeth Jane <1951-> |
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Titolo |
Emigrant worlds and transatlantic communities [[electronic resource] ] : migration to Upper Canada in the first half of the nineteenth century / / Elizabeth Jane Errington |
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Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-86608-7 |
9786612866081 |
0-7735-7561-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 electronic text (xii, 244 p. : ill., map) : digital file |
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Collana |
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McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history. Series two ; ; 24 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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British - Kinship - Ontario - History - 19th century |
Immigrants - Family relationships - Ontario - History - 19th century |
Families - Ontario - History - 19th century |
Immigrants - Ontario |
Ontario Emigration and immigration History 19th century |
Great Britain Emigration and immigration History 19th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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To go or not to go -- Bustle of preparation --Nether world on the Atlantic -- Into the "strange land" -- Transatlantic webs of kin and community -- Conclusion -- Note on sources: reading and writing about the emigrants' world. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Emigrant Worlds and Transatlantic Communities gives voice to the Irish, Scottish, English, and Welsh women and men who negotiated the complex and often dangerous world of emigration between 1815 and 1845. Using "information wanted" notices that appeared in colonial newspapers as well as emigrants' own accounts, Errington illustrates that emigration was a family affair. Individuals made their decisions within a matrix of kin and community - their experiences shaped by their identities as husbands and wives, parents and children, siblings and cousins. The Atlantic crossing divided families, but it was also the means of reuniting kin and rebuilding old communities. Emigration created its own unique world - a world whose inhabitants remained |
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