To Make America : European Emigration in the Early Modern Period / edited by Ida Altman and James Horn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Altman, Ida, editor.

Horn, James, 1953- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europeans--America--History.

Europeans.

America--Emigration and immigration--History.

America.

Europe--Emigration and immigration--History.

Europe.

America--History--To 1810.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [1991]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

One. Introduction

Two. A New World in the Old: Local Society and Spanish Emigration to the Indies

Three. Legal and Illegal Emigration from Seville, 1550-1650

Four. "To Parts Beyond the Seas": Free Emigration to the Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century

Five. Recruitment of French Emigrants to Canada, 1600-1760

Six. Indentured Servants Bound for the French Antilles in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Seven. Harnessing the Lure of the "Best Poor Man's Country": The Dynamics of German- Speaking Immigration to British North America, 1683-1783

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520325685

0520325680

OCLC:

1149525948