Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World

by Alison Games

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England's 17th-century colonial empire in North America and the Caribbean was created by migration. This migration is captured in the London port register of 1635, the largest port register for any single year in the colonial period and unique in its record of migration to America and to the European continent. This work analyzes the 7500 people who travelled from London in that year, recreating individual careers, exploring colonial societies at a time of emerging viability and delineating show more a world sustained and defined by migration. show less

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Alison Games is Dorothy M Brown Distinguished Professor of History at Georgetown University She is the author of Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World and co-author of The Atlantic World: A History, 1400-1888.

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Genres: History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS: 974.02 — History & geography History of North America Northeastern United States (New England and Middle Atlantic states)
LCC: F7 .G215 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America United States local history New England
BISAC: HIS HISTORY United States Colonial Period (1600-1775)

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