"To make America" : European emigration in the early modern period edited by Ida Altman and James Horn

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horn, James, 1953-

Altman, Ida.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europeans--America--History.

Europeans.

Europe--Emigration and immigration--History.

Europe.

America--History--To 1810.

America.

America--Emigration and immigration--History.

Physical Description:

vii, 251 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 1991.

Contents:

New world in the old : local society and Spanish emigration to the Indies

Legal and illegal emigration from Seville, 1550-1650

"To parts beyond the seas" : free emigration to the Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century

Recruitment of French emigrants to Canada, 1600-1760

Indentured servants bound for the French Antilles in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Harnessing the lure of the "best poor man's country" : the dynamics of German-speaking immigration to British North America, 1683-1783.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

The Balch Institute Library and Archives

ISBN:

0520072332 (cloth)

OCLC:

23144637