Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World

Name: Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World
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ISBN: 9780674007024

ISBN-10: 0674007026

ISBN-13: 9780674007024

Edition: 1999

Authors: Alison Games

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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 unique in its record of migration to America and to the European continent. Alison Games analyzes the 7,500 people who traveled from London in that year, recreating individual careers, exploring colonial societies at a time of emerging viability, and delineating a world sustained and defined by migration. The colonial travelers were bound for the major regions of English settlement--New England, the…

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List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 11/5/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English

Alison Games is Associate Professor of History, Georgetown University.



Introduction



Clearinghouse and Countinghouse: London and Overseas Expansion



The Colonial Travelers of 1635



Life, Death, and Labor in an Unsettled Land



The Trappings of Success in Three Plantation Colonies



Piety and Protest in the Puritan Diaspora



Persistence and Migration in Old and New England



Migration and the Atlantic World


Appendix: Calculating Travelers


Appendix: Supplementary Tables


Notes


Archival Sources


Index