Moving Europeans

by Moch, Leslie Page

• ISBN13: 9780253342294
• ISBN10: 0253342295
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-06-01
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

Moving Europeanstells the story of the vast movements of people throughout Europe and examines the links between human mobility and the fundamental changes that transformed European life. This update of a classic text describes the Western European migration from the pre-industrial era to the year 2000. For this new edition, Leslie Page Moch reconsiders the 20th century in light of fundamental changes in labor, years of conflict, and the new migrations following the end of colonial empires, the fall of communism, and globalization. This new edition also features a greatly expanded and up-to-date bibliography.

Author Biography

Leslie Page Moch is Professor of History at Michigan State University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction to the Second Edition	xiii
Putting Migration into History	1	(21)
Explaining Migration Patterns	6	(3)
Region, State, and City	9	(4)
Individuals, Social Relations, and Migration Systems	13	(5)
Definitions and Data	18	(4)
Migration in Preindustrial Europe	22	(38)
The Character of the Age	23	(3)
The Politics of Migration: War, Empire, and Intolerance	26	(5)
Migration in the Preindustrial Countryside	31	(9)
Family, Service, and Marriage	31	(5)
Inheritance and Landholding	36	(4)
Portrait of a Migration System	40	(3)
Movement to the Preindustrial City	43	(15)
Conclusion	58	(2)
Migration in the Age of Early Industry	60	(42)
The Character of the Age: Politics, Population, and Landholding	63	(5)
``Hybrid Societies'' and the Family Economy	68	(2)
Early Industry and Migration	70	(6)
The Expansion of Temporary Migration	76	(7)
Portrait of a Migration System	83	(5)
Vagrancy, Crime, and Illegitimacy: The Marginal Migrant	88	(5)
Migration to Eighteenth-Century Towns and Cities	93	(6)
Conclusion	99	(3)
Migration in an Age of Urbanization and Industrialization	102	(59)
The Character of the Age: War, Peace, and Migration	105	(3)
Rural Europe	108	(18)
Population and Landholding in the Nineteenth Century	108	(3)
The Disintegration of Rural Livelihoods	111	(9)
Changing Patterns of Circular Migration	120	(3)
The Example of East Elbia	123	(3)
Migration and Urbanization	126	(21)
Migrants and the Urban Economy	131	(12)
Crime and Illegitimacy: The Marginal Migrant	143	(4)
Migration to the Americas	147	(11)
Patterns of Transatlantic Migration	147	(2)
A Global Labor Force	149	(4)
The Process of Transatlantic Migration	153	(5)
Conclusion	158	(3)
Migration in the Twentieth Century	161	(37)
Migration among European Nations, 1914-1945	165	(7)
Population, Migration, and Urbanization after 1914	172	(5)
Foreign Labor in Postwar Europe, 1945-1973	177	(9)
From Migrant Labor to Ethnic Minority: The Turks in Germany	186	(3)
Immigration since 1973	189	(7)
Conclusion	196	(2)
Conclusion	198	(3)
Notes	201	(44)
Bibliography	245	(22)
Index	267