Maritime Transport and Migration: The Connections Between Maritime and Migration Networks

by International Maritime Economic History Association

This study explores the connection between global maritime and migration networks to better understand the acceleration of the transatlantic migration rate that took place in the latter half of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. It brings together the actions of migrants, government regulators, transatlantic shipping companies, and the agents who represented them to determine the motives and opportunities for transatlantic mass-migration...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0973893435
• ISBN13: 9780973893434
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 184 Pages