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(GW 1098) The Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775
Peter Wilson Coldham

Genealogical Publishing Company, 1988

Between 1614 and 1775 some 50,000 English men, women, and children were sentenced by judicial process to be sent to the American colonies for a variety of crimes. The data on these involuntary colonists came from a variety of official records which the author of this work spent over fifteen years studying. Among those covered were minutes of eleven Courts of Assize and Jail Delivery and of twenty-eight Courts of Quarter Session, as well as ...

Emigrant Nation: The Making of Italy Abroad
Mark I. Choate

Harvard University Press, 2008

Between 1880 and 1915, thirteen million Italians left their homeland, launching the largest emigration from any country in recorded world history. As the young Italian state struggled to adapt to the exodus, it pioneered the establishment of a “global nation”?an Italy abroad cemented by ties of culture, religion, ethnicity, and economics. In this wide-ranging work, Mark Choate examines the relationship between the Italian ...

The Journal of Jedediah Barstow: An Emigrant On The Oregon Trail

5 reviews
Ellen Levine

Scholastic Inc., 2002

A nice depiction of the Oregon Trail
After the rest of his family drowned while fording a river on the Oregon Trail, Jedediah Barstow finds himself all alone and carrying on the family "dream" which to him has already been shattered. Adopted by the Henshaw family Jedediah finds himself braving the trails of the old west to carry on the family dream. Even through the constant complaints from grouchy Mr. Henshaw Jedediah perseveres ...

The Emigrants (Borealis Books)

3 reviews
Johan Bojer

Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1991

Powerful story of Norwegian emigrants
Johan Bojer was a Norwegian novelist who came to America briefly a few years before writing this book to gather information about the immigrant experience, especially of the Norwegians who had settled on the northern Plains. The resulting novel is a classic account, full of life and tragedy, and hope for the future. Erik Foss, after living in America, returns to Norway to convince a group of ...

Emigrants: The Emigrant Novels Book 1 (The Emigrant Novels / Vilhelm Moberg, Book 1)

23 reviews
Vilhelm Moberg

Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1995

Honored Ancestors
This book will always be one of my favorites. Moberg not only tells the story of an immigrant family, he reveals the pioneer heart. While the story continues to move at a good pace, you are still invited to feel character's aspirations and doubt, courage and fear, pride, failure, love, regret and forgiveness. I finished the first book and could not stop thinking about Oskar and Kristina. I ...

The Emigrants' Guide: To Oregon and California in 1844

1 review
Lansford W. Hastings

The Narrative Press, 2001

My Amazon Book Order
The book was sent in excellent condition and I am satisfied with my book.

Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America (Oxford Paperbacks)

7 reviews
Kerby A. Miller

Oxford University Press, USA, 1988

Why did our ancestors emigrate? Why did some wait so long?
Many of us tracing our Irish ancestry will never really know our forebears - we may learn their names and the dates and places of their births and deaths - but we will never know who they really were. It is to sources such as this book that we must turn to flesh out the picture of the Irish emigrant and the forces that drove them from their homes - economic, social, cultural, and ...

A New Guide For Emigrants To The West: Containing Sketches Of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, ...
John Mason Peck

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2008

The Emigrants

41 reviews
W. G. Sebald, Michael Hulse

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1997

The trail of the butterfly man: homage to Vladimir Dimitrovich
Having my appetite for Sebald wetted by Austerlitz, I picked up the Emigrants with high expectations, and they were surpassed: on top of the expected modern masterpiece I got a recognition of one the greatest writers on emigration that Europe produced in the 20th century. Nabokov shows up in all four pieces in small roles, a bit like Hitchcock did in his films. His appearances are as dispersed, ...

The Complete Book of Emigrants, 1700-1750
Peter Wilson Coldham

Genealogical Pub Co, 1992

Taking as its subject the first fifty years of the eighteenth century and following the arrangement of the two earlier works in this distinguished series , the third volume of The Complete Book of Emigrants provides a comprehensive list of emigrants from surviving records in English archives. The records used in this volume, in addition to the usual spread of sources, derive principally from (1) Plantation Apprenticeship Bindins; (2) Port ...

Last Letter Home: The Emigrant Novels Book 4 (The Emigrant Novels / Vilhelm Moberg, Book 4)

5 reviews
Vilhelm Moberg

Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1995

NOW AMERICANS...
This is the last volume in a quartet of books by one of Sweden's greatest authors. Translated from Swedish into English, this work of historical fiction was originally published in 1961. Aptly titled, "Last Letter Home", it is the final epic in a four part opus, the first three of which are "The Emigrants", "Unto a Good Land", and "The Settlers". One should read them in the order in which they ...

Across America on an Emigrant Train

3 reviews
Jim Murphy

Clarion Books, 2003

Excellent book
This is a short easy and fun history book that blends excerpts Robert Louis Stevenson's "Amateur Emigrant" and "Across the Plains" with Jim Murphy's prose and descriptions. I was expecting a kids book but far from it - while not academic or even pretentiously so, it's on par with a PBS episode of "American Experience" and reminds me of how fun history can be. The historical photo's are excellent, ...

Emigrants from England to the American Colonies, 1773-1776
Peter Wilson Coldham

Genealogical Publishing Company, 1988

After the end of the French and Indian War there was alarm in England that the outflow of men, women, and children to the colonies would depopulate entire parts of England and Scotland. So, in 1773, the British Government took steps to stem the loss. Short of limiting or banning emigration to the colonies, it was proposed that data on emigration be compiled which would ultimately help the Government in curbing the exodus. In December 1773, ...

The Emigrants (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)

1 review
George Lamming

University of Michigan Press, 1994

Immigration and Loss of Identity
In Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe narrates the disruptive effect European colonisation has on old tribal ways of life. In George Lamming's The Emigrants (1954)the movement is the other way round: a group of West Indians immigrates to London in search of a better future. During the voyage on the ship, told as a kind of rite of passage from their old to the new world, they share past ...

Planters of the Commonwealth: A Study of the Emigrants and Emigration in Colonial Times
Charles Edward Banks

Heritage Books, Inc., 2007

The Planters of the Commonwealth came to the New World to plant...the seeds of a new nation whose fruit should become another England, with its traditions, culture, and laws. Who were these planters? Where were they from? Why did this Great Emigration occur? In this book Col. Banks explores the answers to these questions and shows what it must have been like for the passengers on these ships. Using records from both England and America, Col. ...

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