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Coerced and free migration : global perspectives / edited by David Eltis.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: The making of modern freedomPublication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2002.Description: xii, 447 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0804744548 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 325 21
Contents:
Introduction: migration and agency in global history/ David Eltis -- Free and coerced migrations from the old world to the new / David Eltis -- Changing laws and regulations and their impact on migration / Stanley L. Engerman -- The epidemiology of migration / Philip D. Curtin -- The differential cultural impact of free and coerced migration to colonial America / Lorena S. Walsh -- Irish and German migration to eighteenth-century North America / Marianne S. Wokeck -- Migration and collective identities among the enslaved and free populations of North America / Mechal Sobel -- Freedom and indentured labor in the French Caribbean, 1848-1900 / David Northrup -- Asian contract and free migrations to the Americas / Walton Look Lai -- Convicts : unwilling migrants from Britain and France / Colin Forster -- Migration in early modern Russia, 1480s-1780s / Richard Hellie -- Peasant migration, the abolition of serfdom, and the internal passport system in the Russian Empire, c. 1800-1914 / david Moon.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: migration and agency in global history/ David Eltis -- Free and coerced migrations from the old world to the new / David Eltis -- Changing laws and regulations and their impact on migration / Stanley L. Engerman -- The epidemiology of migration / Philip D. Curtin -- The differential cultural impact of free and coerced migration to colonial America / Lorena S. Walsh -- Irish and German migration to eighteenth-century North America / Marianne S. Wokeck -- Migration and collective identities among the enslaved and free populations of North America / Mechal Sobel -- Freedom and indentured labor in the French Caribbean, 1848-1900 / David Northrup -- Asian contract and free migrations to the Americas / Walton Look Lai -- Convicts : unwilling migrants from Britain and France / Colin Forster -- Migration in early modern Russia, 1480s-1780s / Richard Hellie -- Peasant migration, the abolition of serfdom, and the internal passport system in the Russian Empire, c. 1800-1914 / david Moon.

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