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Record Nr.

UNISA996247934303316

Titolo

Europeans on the move : studies on European migration, 1500-1800

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Clarendon, 1994

ISBN

9780191676147 (ebook) :

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 329 p.) : maps

Disciplina

304.8/704/0903

Soggetti

Political Science

Law, Politics & Government

Immigration & Emigration

Europe Emigration and immigration History

North America Emigration and immigration History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: Europeans on the Move, 1500-1800Bernard Bailyn -- Part I: The Early Experiences -- 2. The Medieval Background / Seymour Phillips -- 3. The First Transatlantic Transfer: Spanish Migration to the New World, 1493-1810 / Nicolas Sanchez-Albornoz -- Part II: Migration from the Three Kingdoms: England, Scotland, and Ireland -- 4. English Migration into and across the Atlantic during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / Nicholas Canny -- 5. Scottish Emigration in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / T.C. Smout, N.C. Landsman, and T.M. Devine -- 6. The Irish Diaspora of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / L. M. Cullen -- Part III: Continental European Migration: The Netherlands, Germany, and France -- 7. The Netherlands, the Dutch, and Long-Distance Migration in the Late Sixteenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries / Jan Lucassen -- 8. Transatlantic Migration from the German-Speaking Parts of Central Europe, 1600-1800: Proportions, Structures, and Explanations / Georg Fertig -- 9. Manon's Fellow Exiles: Emigration from France to North America before 1763 / Peter Moogk -- Conclusion -- 10. In Search of a Better Home? European Overseas Migration, 1500-1800 / Nicholas Canny

Sommario/riassunto

Considers the phenomenon of European migration during the three



centuries following the first voyage of Columbus to the New World. Although these studies focus on a range of European countries, they point collectively to the fact that migration led to early death rather than quick fortune.