Crossings - The Great Transatlantic Migrations, 1870 1914

During the period 1870-1914, the Atlantic was a broad highway for migration. Nugent looks at this massive movement of people from both sides of the Atlantic.

List of contents

Part I: The Atlantic Region and Its Population

1. What This Book Is About

2. The Atlantic Region in the Late Nineteenth Century

3. Fertility and Mortality

4. Migration: General Patterns and Motives

Part II: The European Donors

Introduction

5. Britain (Englant-Wales and Scotland)

6. Ireland

7. Scandinavia

8. The German Empire

9. Austria-Hungary and Russia, Jews and Poles

10. Italy

11. Spain and Portugal

Part III: The American Receivers

Introduction

12. Argentina

13. Brazil

14. Canada

15. United States of America

16. Modernization, Transition, and Exceptionalism

Notes, List of Works Cited and Consulted, Index

About the author

Walter Nugent

Summary

" -Journal of Economic History"In terms of synthesizing existing literature and extending comparisons across boundaries, Nugent offers a shining example for both students and established scholars." -Journal of Interdisciplinary History

Product details

• Authors: Walter Nugent, Walter T. Nugent, Nugent Walter
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.1995
• EAN: 9780253209535
• ISBN: 978-0-253-20953-5
• No. of pages: 252
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 404 g
• Series: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories