The Genesis of International Mass Migration: The British Case, 1750-1900

by Eric Richards

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 152613148X
• ISBN13: 9781526131485
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"