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Jeremy Hayhoe - Strangers and Neighbours: Rural Migration in Eighteenth-Century Northern Burgundy - 9781442650480 - V9781442650480
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Strangers and Neighbours: Rural Migration in Eighteenth-Century Northern Burgundy

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Description for Strangers and Neighbours: Rural Migration in Eighteenth-Century Northern Burgundy Hardback. In this book, Hayhoe paints a picture of a surprisingly mobile and dynamic Burgundian rural population. Num Pages: 280 pages, 1 figure, 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; JFFN; JFSF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .

Though historians have come to acknowledge the mobility of rural populations in early modern Europe, few books demonstrate the intensity and importance of short-distance migrations as definitively as Strangers and Neighbours. Marshalling an incredible range of evidence that includes judicial records, tax records, parish registers, and the census of 1796, Jeremy Hayhoe reconstructs the migration profiles of more than 70,000 individuals from eighteenth-century northern Burgundy.

In this book, Hayhoe paints a picture of a surprisingly mobile and dynamic rural population. More than three quarters of villagers would move at least once in their lifetime; most of those who moved would ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
280
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442650480
SKU
V9781442650480
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About Jeremy Hayhoe
Jeremy Hayhoe is an associate professor in the Department of History and Geography at the Université de Moncton.

Reviews for Strangers and Neighbours: Rural Migration in Eighteenth-Century Northern Burgundy
‘Hayhoe’s creativity in this book should not go unnoticed… His finding that no local policies prohibited migrations and that provincial authorities attempted to make them as orderly as possible highlights the use of history to create a better understanding of the present.’
Jérôme Loiseau
Journal of Interdisciplinary History vol 47:04:2016
"Hayhoe does more than simply document mobility…he ... Read more

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