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Emigration from the United Kingdom to America
Ira A. Glazier
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Description for Emigration from the United Kingdom to America
Hardback. Series: Emigration from the United Kingdom to America. Num Pages: 542 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures, graphs. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 3JH; HBJD1; HBJK; HBTG; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 161 x 45. Weight in Grams: 953.
Approximately three fifths of the emigration from the United Kingdom to America arrived in the 19th century. The remainder came through Ellis Island between 1900 and 1924. Arrivals from the U.K. began to increase in the mid-1840's with the Irish Famine that led to very high mortality rates, rising prices and unemployment and a massive outflow of Irish population to the U.S. In the post-Famine period, England's industrial revolution progressed and emigration continued to grow between the prosperous 1850's and the mid-1890's. This series on Emigration from the United Kingdom to America concentrates on U.K. emigration in the period ... Read more
Approximately three fifths of the emigration from the United Kingdom to America arrived in the 19th century. The remainder came through Ellis Island between 1900 and 1924. Arrivals from the U.K. began to increase in the mid-1840's with the Irish Famine that led to very high mortality rates, rising prices and unemployment and a massive outflow of Irish population to the U.S. In the post-Famine period, England's industrial revolution progressed and emigration continued to grow between the prosperous 1850's and the mid-1890's. This series on Emigration from the United Kingdom to America concentrates on U.K. emigration in the period ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
542
Condition
New
Series
Emigration from the United Kingdom to America
Number of Pages
542
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810879485
SKU
V9780810879485
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About Ira A. Glazier
Ira Glazier, who passed away in May of 2011, is the former Director of The Center for Migration Research at The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies and Immigration, and the former director of castlegarden.org for The Battery Conservancy in New York.
Reviews for Emigration from the United Kingdom to America
Glazier has an excellent track record for preparing indexes, many in collaboration with P. William Filby, one of the nations past leading genealogical/historical librarians and an avid indexer. Glazier’s earlier series relate to passenger lists of immigrants from Germany, Ireland, Italy, and Russia. These volumes, along with the previous volumes, are recommended for reference collections serving family historians.
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