Migration in a mature economy : emigration and internal migration in England and Wales, 1861-1900
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Migration in a mature economy : emigration and internal migration in England and Wales, 1861-1900
(Cambridge studies in population, economy and society in past time, 3)
Cambridge University Press, 1985
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 338-349
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this study Mr Baines has devised a method of estimating the county of birth of all permanent emigrants from England and Wales in the last four decades of the nineteenth century - some 2.3 million people. He has related the rate and timing of migration to the social and economic characteristics of the counties, which has provided answers to many of the outstanding questions in the history of English emigration, including, for example, the idea of an 'Atlantic Economy' and the extent to which Welsh migration was distinct from or integrated into the English pattern. Briefly, the book concludes that the emigrants did not, in the main, come from 'peripheral' parts of the country. Probably one half of the emigrants had known no environment other than a large town. It is likely that English and Welsh emigrants were more likely to return than emigrants from any European country. Most of the emigrants seem to have been well-informed about the costs and benefits of moving - most probably from the experience of previous emigrants. English emigration could not therefore have been a simple flight from poverty, but was rather based on a well considered decision to leave home, although not necessarily for ever.
Table of Contents
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction: the scope of the study
- 2. Issues in the history of European emigration, 1840-1914
- 3. The characteristics of British emigrants before 1914
- 4. The estimation of migration by county of birth
- 5. Return migration to Britain, 1860-1914
- 6. The birthplace of English and Welsh emigrants, 1861-1900
- 7. English and Welsh emigrants in the 1880s and 1890s
- 8. Emigration and urban growth
- 9. Rural-urban stage emigration, 1861-1900
- 10. Wales and the Atlantic economy, 1861-1914
- A summary of conclusions
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index.
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