Migrants, emigrants, and immigrants : a social history of migration / edited by Colin G. Pooley and Ian D. Whyte.

Date:
1991
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Publication/Creation

London ; New York : Routledge, 1991.

Physical description

xiv, 231 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Notes

Consists of selected edited papers originally presented at the annual conference of the Social History Society held in Oxford in January 1989.
"In association with the Social History Society of the United Kingdom."

Contents

Introduction : approaches to the study of migration and social change / Colin G. Pooley and Ian D. Whyte -- Voices of British and Irish migrants in nineteenth-century Australia / Eric Richards -- From Irish countryside to American city : the settlement and mobility of Ulster migrants in Philadelphia / Deirdre M. Mageean -- Empire migration and social reform 1880-1950 / Stephen Constantine -- Migration in early modern Scotland and England : a comparative perspective / Ian D. Whyte -- role of the family in the process of migration / Kevin Schurer -- Longitudinal study of migration : Welsh migration to English towns in the nineteenth century / Colin G. Pooley and John C. Doherty -- Women migrants in mind : leaving Wales in the nineteenth and twentieth centures / Kate Bartholomew -- Historians and immigration / Colin Holmes.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [208]-226) and index.

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    History of Medicine
    EH.41
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  • 0415049768