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Emigration from the United Kingdom to America
Ira A. . Ed(S): Glazier
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Description for Emigration from the United Kingdom to America
Hardback. Editor(s): Glazier, Ira A. Series: Emigration from the United Kingdom to America. Num Pages: 640 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; GBC; HBJD1; HBJK; HBTG; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1130.
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 ... 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
640
Condition
New
Series
Emigration from the United Kingdom to America
Number of Pages
640
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810861695
SKU
V9780810861695
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Ref
99-15
About Ira A. . Ed(S): Glazier
Ira Glazier is the former Director of The Center for Migration Research at The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies and Immigration. He is currently the director of castlegarden.org for The Battery Conservancy in New York.
Reviews for Emigration from the United Kingdom to America
Provide[s] historians and genealogists with a database of English, Welsh, Scottish, and Irish immigrants arriving at the port of New York in the last quarter of the 19th century.
Book News, Inc., November 2008
Book News, Inc., November 2008