Mobility and Migration: East Anglian Founders of New England, 1629-1640

by Roger Thompson

Book Overview

During the 1630s, more than 14,000 people sailed from Britain bound for New England, constituting what has come to be known as the Great Migration. This book offers the most extensive study of these emigrants ever undertaken. Focusing on 2,000 individuals who moved from the five counties of eastern England, it provides historians with important new findings on mobility, family life, kinship networks, and community cohesion. Roger Thompson reveals...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155849796X
• ISBN13: 9781558497962
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher