Migration and Society in Early Modern England
Peter Clark author David Souden author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield
Published:11th Aug '88
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Contents: Introduction, Peter Clark and David Souden; Vagrants and vagrancy in England, 1598-1664, Paul A. Slack; Patterns of migration and movement of labour to three pre-industrial East Anglian towns, John Patten; Neighbourhood migration in early modern London, Jeremy Boulton; 'Rogues, whores and vagabonds'?; Indentured servant emigration to North America and the case of mid seventeenth-century Bristol, David Souden; Moving on in the New World: migration and out-migration in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake, J.P. Horn; Migration in England during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, Peter Clark; Age-specific mobility in an eighteenth-century rural English parish, R.S. Schofield; Migrants in the city: the process of social adaptation in English towns, 1500-1800, Peter Clark; 'East, westóhome's best'? Regional patterns in migration in early modern England, David Souden; Bibliography; Index
...much that is good and useful...a lucid and informed discussion of definitions and theories of migration....a most valuable collection. It will be of great value to students studying social history in this period. The quality of the contributions ishigh, and the volume's coverage is quite balanced. * Albion *
...informative and well-illustrated....an important link with both current research...and the accumulation of geographical knowledge... * Journal of Geography *
...useful as an example of the kinds of sources that are available for the study of migration in England and its North American colonies...non-specialists will find the notes and bibliography useful. * CHOICE *
The editors offer a great service to those scholars interested in English social history. They have assembled an excellent collection of well-researched and well-written essays. * The Sixteenth Century Journal *
The editors offer a great service to those scholars interested in English social history. They have assembled an excellent collection of well-researched and well-written essays. * The Sixteenth Century Journal *
...much that is good and useful...a lucid and informed discussion of definitions and theories of migration....a most valuable collection. It will be of great value to students studying social history in this period. The quality of the contributions is high, and the volume's coverage is quite balanced. * Albion *
...informative and well-illustrated....an important link with both current research...and the accumulation of geographical knowledge... * Journal of Geography *
...useful as an example of the kinds of sources that are available for the study of migration in England and its North American colonies...non-specialists will find the notes and bibliography useful. * CHOICE *
ISBN: 9780389207788
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
Weight: 454g
355 pages