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Europeans on the move : studies on European migration, 1500-1800
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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, the...
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.
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- English
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- Oxford : Clarendon, 1994
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- 1 online resource (xii, 329 p.) : maps
- ISBNs
- 9780191676147, 0198204191, 0191676144
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- 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