Nugent, Walter T. K.

Crossings the great transatlantic migrations, 1870-1914 Walter Nugent. - Bloomington Indiana University Press 1995, c1992. - xvi, 234 p. ill., maps 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [198]-223) and index.

What this book is about -- The Atlantic region in the late nineteenth century -- Fertility and mortality -- Migration : general patterns and motives -- Britain (England-Wales and Scotland) -- Ireland -- Scandinavia -- The German empire -- Austria-Hungary and Russia, Jews and Poles -- Italy -- Spain and Portugal -- Argentina -- Brazil -- Canada -- United States of America -- Modernization, transition, and exceptionalism.

0253209536 (pbk.)


Emigration and immigration


United States--Emigration and immigration.
Europe--Emigration and immigration.

304.8094 / N966c