Migration and the origins of the English Atlantic world Alison Games

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Games, Alison, 1963-

Series:

Harvard historical studies ; v. 133.

Harvard historical studies ; v. 133

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New England--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

New England.

Great Britain--Colonies--America--History--17th century.

Great Britain.

West Indies, British--History--17th century.

West Indies, British.

New England--Emigration and immigration--History--17th century.

West Indies, British--Emigration and immigration--History--17th century.

Great Britain--Emigration and immigration--History--17th century.

Immigrants--New England--History--17th century.

Immigrants.

Immigrants--West Indies, British--History--17th century.

British--Atlantic Ocean Region--History--17th century.

British.

Immigrants--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Ships--England--London--Passenger lists.

Ships.

Great Britain--Emigration and immigration--History.

Local Subjects:

Great Britain--Emigration and immigration--History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 322 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.

Summary:

"England's seventeenth-century colonial empire in North America and the Caribbean was created by migration. The quickening pace of this essential migration is captured in the London port register of 1635, the largest extant port register for any single year in the colonial period and unique in its record of migration to America and to the European continent. Alison Games analyzes the 7,500 people who traveled from London in that year, recreating individual careers, exploring colonial societies at a time of emerging viability, and delineating a world sustained and defined by migration."--Jacket.

Contents:

1. Clearinghouse and Countinghouse: London and Overseas Expansion

2. The Colonial Travelers of 1635

3. Life, Death, and Labor in an Unsettled Land

4. The Trappings of Success in Three Plantation Colonies

5. Piety and Protest in the Puritan Diaspora

6. Persistence and Migration in Old and New England

7. Migration and the Atlantic World

App. A. Calculating Travelers

App. B. Supplementary Tables.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-299) and index.

Local Notes:

The Balch Ethnic Studies Collection.

Other Format:

Online version: Games, Alison, 1963- Migration and the origins of the English Atlantic world.

ISBN:

0674573811

9780674573819

OCLC:

41156437

Online:

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