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Format:

Book

Author:

Title:

Voyagers to the West : a passage in the peopling of America on the eve of the Revolution / Bernard Bailyn, with the assistance of Barbara DeWolfe.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher, Date:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1986.

Description:

xxvii, 668 pages, 36 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, maps ; 24 cm

Summary:

Provides official statistics and personal information on immigration to the New World from Britain.

Subjects:

Immigrants -- North America -- History -- 18th century.

British -- North America -- History -- 18th century.

Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 18th century.

North America -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 18th century.

Other Author:

DeWolfe, Barbara, author.

Other Title:

Passage in the peopling of America on the eve of the Revolution

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pulitzer Prize, History, 1987.

Contents:

pt. I. Background : the magnet of the West. An expanded world, 1760-1776 ; The dilemma of British policy ; Searching for the facts : the origin and character of the register of emigrants -- pt. II. Dimensions. Magnitudes, locations, and flow ; Identities and motivations : the dual emigrations ; Arrivals and destinations -- pt. III. Mobilizing a labor force. The demand ; Sources ; Recruitment ; Sales and distribution -- pt. IV. Peopling the peripheral lands : the extremities. Yorkshire and the Maritime Northeast ; Failure in Xanadu ; Gulf and delta -- pt. V. Peopling the peripheral lands : the great inland arc. North Carolina : the wreck of the Bachelor ; Georgia : exploiting the ceded lands ; New York : swarming to the north.

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Table of contents

LCCN:

86045358

ISBN:

0394515692

9780394515694

9780394757780

0394757785

Other Number:

13423480

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

68369

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Call Number:

304.8 Bailyn