Migration in a Mature Economy: Emigration and Internal Migration in England and Wales 1861-1900

by Dudley Baines

In this study Mr Baines has devised a method of estimating the county of birth of all permanent emigrants from England and Wales in the last four decades of the nineteenth century - some 2.3 million people. He has related the rate and timing of migration to the social and economic characteristics of the counties, which has provided answers to many of the outstanding questions in the history of English emigration, including, for example, the idea of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052189154X
• ISBN13: 9780521891547
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.3"