European Emigration to the Americas: 1492 to Independence: A Hemispheric View

by Rebecca Horn and Eric Hinderaker

European colonization of the Americas was shaped by three mass demographic transformations: the catastrophic decline of Native American populations, the forced migration of enslaved Africans, and the mass relocation of European populations to American settings. This essay focuses on the third of these developments. While European emigration to the Americas can be seen as a single, widely differentiated but coherent whole, most scholarship treats it...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872292878
• ISBN13: 9780872292871
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: American Historical Association
• Length: 49 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.4"