Europeans on the Move: Studies on European Migration 1500-1800 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198204191 ISBN 13: 9780198204190

Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1994

Synopsis

A survey of medieval times shows that Europeans were adept at long-distance travel in search of employment and opportunity. Some of these medieval adventures went beyond the perimeter of Europe well before the encounter with America. Conclusions drawn from the experiences of England, Scotland and Ireland, as well as the Netherlands and Germany, demonstrate that the Spanish concentration upon America as a land of opportunity was exceptional. This study considers the phenomenon of European migration during the three centuries, 1500-1800. The contributors point collectively to the fact that migration led to early death rather than quick fortune.

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Review:

`the book provides excellent, up-to-date surveys of the early history of long-distance migration'The Irish Times

The subject is of the greatest importance but has only in recent years begun to attract the attention it merits. This book makes handsome amends. ... this is an excellent book, full of new information and insights and the starting point for any further investigations into that outcome of European expansion whose consquences are still so manifestly with us. (History Today)

The value of this collection lies principally in its comprehensiveness. Drawing upon a rich outpouring of recent scholarship, reflected in its bibliographies, this impressive collection is by far the best available summary of the field and makes a valuable contribution to migration studies generally. (Economic History Review)

This informative collection of essays, most derived from a 1990 conference at the Royal Irish Academy, describes the current understanding of early modern migration from Europe...Europeans on the Move is an excellent interim report, offering some new answers and many new questions that will be of interest to early modern historians. (The International History Review)

The substantive essays are among the most difficult a historian has to write, synthesizing into a progress report existing secondary literature without slipping into waffle or historiography ... the authors have succeeded in their tasks admirably ... All have been aided by their own research in the primary sources ... this is an important and stimulating book, which ought to lead to lecture revisions across the continent. (J.M. Bumsted, University of Manitoba, The Journal of American History, December 1995)

this is a very valuable collection that considerably advances the subject (Jeremy Black, University of Exeter, EHR Feb. 97)

About this edition

• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0198204191
• ISBN 13: 9780198204190
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 344
• Editor: Canny Nicholas