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Migration and the origins of the English Atlantic world

"England's seventeenth-century colonial empire in North America and the Caribbean was created by migration. The quickening pace of this essential migration is captured in the London port register of 1635, the largest extant port register for any single year in the colonial period and uniqu...

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Main Author: Games, Alison, 1963-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.
Series:Harvard historical studies ; v. 133.
Subjects and Genres:
Immigrants > New England > History > 17th century.
Immigrants > West Indies, British > History > 17th century.
British > Atlantic Ocean Region > History > 17th century.
Immigrants > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Ships > England > London > Passenger lists.
New England > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Great Britain > Colonies > America > History > 17th century.
West Indies, British > History > 17th century.
New England > Emigration and immigration > History > 17th century.
West Indies, British > Emigration and immigration > History > 17th century.
Great Britain > Emigration and immigration > History > 17th century.
Great Britain > Emigration and immigration > History.
Online Access:Book review (H-Net)
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Clearinghouse and Countinghouse: London and Overseas Expansion
  • 2. The Colonial Travelers of 1635
  • 3. Life, Death, and Labor in an Unsettled Land
  • 4. The Trappings of Success in Three Plantation Colonies
  • 5. Piety and Protest in the Puritan Diaspora
  • 6. Persistence and Migration in Old and New England
  • 7. Migration and the Atlantic World
  • App. A. Calculating Travelers
  • App. B. Supplementary Tables.

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