International migrations in the Victorian era /

"International Migrations in the Victorian Era covers a wide range of case studies to unveil the complexity of transnational circulations and connections in the 19th century. Combining micro- and macro-studies, this volume looks into migration networks, as well as the causes and consequences of...

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Other Authors: Ruiz, Marie (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Series:Studies in global social history ; v. 33.
Studies in global migration history ; v. 11.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Revisiting the originality of Irish migrations during the Victorian era / Geraldine Vaughan
  • Godley's plan for colonization during the famine : the phantom solution / Anne-Catherine de Bouvier
  • The Highland diaspora and its antipodean outliers / Eric Richards
  • Welsh migration to America during the 19th century / Rhiannon Heledd Williams
  • Britain, Argentina and Welsh migration : a reassessment / Trevor Harris
  • Transnationalism, the urban & migration in the Victorian era : the lives of Henry & Sophia Morwitch / Nicole Davis
  • Migration, empire, and the penny post / Kathrin Levitan
  • "Sheep stories" : representations of human and animal emigration and settlement in the nineteenth century / Briony Wickes
  • Global immigration to England and Wales, 1851-1911 : evidence from the census / Ben Szreter
  • Investigating the "other" : a comparative study of migrant settlement in the work of Charles Booth and Jacob Riis in Victorian London and New York / Daniel Renshaw
  • On the road to the asylum : migration and mental illness in Victorian Lancashire (c.1851-1901) / Claire Deligny
  • A less eligible country for a Pole : Britain and the Polish refugees in the early Victorian period (1837-1847) / Milosz K. Cybowski
  • Jewish immigration and the shaping of a British antipodean outpost / Sue Silberberg
  • Exiles and exes : women's emigration poetry and fiction in the Victorian periodical press / Jude Piesse
  • Victorian women and evangelicalism in the Far East : an international mission / Nicolas Garnier
  • Migrant memsahibs : travel, and gynaecological complications during the Raj / Ipshita Nath
  • "The opportunity for empire building" : the girls' friendly society, child emigration, and domestic service in the British Empire / Elizabeth Dillenburg
  • The emigration of Irish famine orphan girls to Australia : the Earl Grey scheme / Veronique Molinari
  • From suppression to sponsorship : juvenile emigration and the preservation of pre-industrial labor / Rebecca Bates
  • Little wanderers : the British home children in Canada / Sally Brooke Cameron.