Britannia's Children Emigration from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland since 1600

by Richards, Eric

• ISBN13: 9781852854416
• ISBN10: 1852854413
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-05-14
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Twenty-five million emigrants have left the British Isles since 1600, mainly travelling to America or to parts of the British Empire around the world. Britannia's Children is the first account of emigration from the British Isles as a whole, including England, Scotland and Ireland. Tracing the stages of this extraordinary movement from the days of the Mayflower to modern times, Eric Roberts shows the variety of motives that drove men and women to make the most momentous decisions of their lives as well as providing a mass of individual stories, voyages, destinations and fates.

Author Biography

Eric Richards is Professor of History at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Leaving the Islands	p. 1
The Westward Thrust	p. 17
Atlantic Take-Off	p. 33
Crossing the Atlantic	p. 49
The Reluctant Diaspora	p. 67
The Age of Industrialisation	p. 91
The Beginnings of Mass Emigration	p. 117
Full Spate	p. 151
The High Noon of Victorian Emigration	p. 175
The Last Atlantic Wave	p. 207
Empire and Retreat	p. 233
The End of the Diaspora	p. 255
Retrospect	p. 279
Scatterlings	p. 293
Notes	p. 305
Bibliography	p. 365
Index	p. 371
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