The genesis of international mass migration : the British case, 1750-1900 / Eric Richards.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richards, Eric, 1940-2018, author.

Series:

Manchester scholarship online.

Manchester scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration--History.

Emigration and immigration.

Migration, Internal--Great Britain--History.

Migration, Internal.

Great Britain--Emigration and immigration--History.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 285 pages) : maps (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Why did very large numbers of people begin to depart the British Isles for the New Worlds after about 1770? They were the vanguard of mass economic migration, the carriers of new global labour forces, agents of dispossession and settlement, of family dreams, of individual aspirations, of imperial strategies. But it was new in scale, and it was a pioneering movement, a rehearsal for modern international migration. These first mass inter-continental stirrings began most of all in the British Isles. What activated these great exchanges of humanity, the precursors of so much modern population transfer and turmoil around the globe? This is a question in the middle of most genealogies and central to the making of the modern world.

Contents:

Front matter

Epigraph

Contents

Preface

Map

1 The migration mystery

2 Islands of exit

3 Before the discontinuity and the start of modern times

4 West Sussex and the rural south

5 The discontinuity

6 The North American theatre

7 Migration in Shropshire and the English Midlands

8 Agrarian turmoil and the activation of mass mobility

9 West Cork and North Tipperary

10 The Australasian case

11 Upland adjustments

12 Cornwall, Kent and London

13 Remote departures

14 The Irish case

15 The European extension

16 British emigration and the Malthus model

17 A general view of the origins of modern emigration and the British case

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 26, 2026).

ISBN:

9781526131508

1526131501

9781526131492

1526131498

OCLC:

1049664142