Strangers and Neighbours: Rural Migration in Eighteenth-Century Northern Burgundy

by Jeremy Hayhoe

Though historians have come to acknowledge the mobility of rural populations in early modern Europe, few books demonstrate the intensity and importance of short-distance migrations as definitively as Strangers and Neighbours. Marshalling an incredible range of evidence that includes judicial records, tax records, parish registers, and the census of 1796, Jeremy Hayhoe reconstructs the migration profiles of more than 70,000 individuals from eighteenth-century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442650486
• ISBN13: 9781442650480
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"