- 466 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
A history of major worldwide population movements, free and forced, from about 1500 to the early-20th century. It explores the shifting levels of freedom under which migrants traveled and compares the experiences of migrants (and their descendants) who arrived under different labor regimes.
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Yes, you can access Coerced and Free Migration by David Eltis in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Emigration & Immigration. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- Series Foreword
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction: Migration and Agency in Global History
- 1. Free and Coerced Migrations from the Old World to the New
- 2. Changing Laws and Regulations and Their Impact on Migration
- 3. The Epidemiology of Migration
- 4. The Differential Cultural Impact of Free and Coerced Migration to Colonial America
- 5. Irish and German Migration to Eighteenth-Century North America
- 6. Migration and Collective Identities Among the Enslaved and Free Populations of North America
- 7. Freedom and Indentured Labor in the French Caribbean, 1848–1900
- 8. Asian Contract and Free Migrations to the Americas
- 9. Convicts: Unwilling Migrants from Britain and France
- 10. Migration in Early Modern Russia, 1480s–1780s
- 11. Peasant Migration, the Abolition of Serfdom, and the Internal Passport System in the Russian Empire c. 1800–1914
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index
- Back Cover