This book argues the modern mass transit of ordinary people derives from common conditions in modernising societies and that they were first manifested in the British Isles.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1 The migration mystery
2 Islands of exit
3 Before the discontinuity and the start of modern times
4 West Sussex and the rural south
5 The discontinuity
6 The North American theatre
7 Migration in Shropshire and the English Midlands
8 Agrarian turmoil and the activation of mass mobility
9 West Cork and North Tipperary
10 The Australasian case
11 Upland adjustments: west Wales and Swaledale and the sequences of migration
12 Cornwall, Kent and London
13 Remote departures: the Scottish Highlands
14 The Irish case
15 The European extension
16 British emigration and the Malthus model
17 A general view of the origins of modern emigration and the British case
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