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Informationen zum Autor Marie Ruiz is Associate Professor in British history at the Universite¿ de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France. She is the author of British Female Emigration Societies and the New World (1860-1914). Klappentext This memorial book honours the legacy of Eric Richards's work in an interplay of academic essays and personal accounts of Eric Richards. Following the Eric Richards methodology, it combines micro- and macro-perspectives of British migration history and covers topics such as diasporas, religious, labour and wartime migrations. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Eric Richards: A Personal Tribute, David Fitzpatrick; Eulogy for Eric, Ngaire Naffine; Introduction; Chapter 1 Eric Richards, Positionality and Migration History, Marie Ruiz; Chapter 2 Emigration at Extremes, Eric Richards; PART I MACRO- HISTORY OF MIGRATION Chapter 3 The Distinctive Scottish Diaspora, John M. MacKenzie; Chapter 4 Religion and Convict Emigration: The Probation System in Australia, Hilary M. Carey; Chapter 5 Cypriot Emigration, 1820s-1930s: Economic Motivations within Local and Global Migration Patterns, Andrekos Varnava; Chapter 6 British Colonial Migration in the Nineteenth Century: The Short Route, Bernard Porter; PART II MICRO- HISTORY OF MIGRATION; Chapter 7 A Controversial Scottish Pioneer in New Zealand: James MacAndrew and the Identity of Otago, Marjory Harper; Chapter 8 'Empire Made Me?' English Lower-Middle-Class Migrants and Expatriates, 1860-1930, A. James Hammerton; Chapter 9 Irish Immigrants and the Middle Class in Colonial New Zealand, 1890-1910, Jim McAloon; Chapter 10 'We Shall Have a Fine Holiday': Imperial Sentiment, Unemployment and the 1928 Miner- Harvester Scheme to Canada, Kent Fedorowich; Notes on Contributors; Index.
