Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World

by Alison Games

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674007026
• ISBN13: 9780674007024
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.6"