The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860: A History of the Continuing Settlement of the United States

by Marcus Lee Hansen

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The westward impulse -- The peopling of the colonies -- The first Americanization -- A new beginning -- America in disfavor -- Pioneers of the Great Migration -- America becomes the common man's utopia -- Commerce bridges the Atlantic -- Hopes and fears of the thirty years' peace -- Colonization no remedy -- The flight from hunger -- New forces at work -- The Great Migration.

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kencf0618 471 reviews

The epic of immigration over the pond from the early colonial era to the Potato Famine.

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dpk1927 116 reviews

From book: The process of settlement and naturalization, together with the freedom of our institutions, and the fertility of our soil, have invited the denizens of the world, wherever assembled, or dispersed, to come among us and become fellow-citizens. And from every degree of latitude and of longitude, and from every isle and continent, under the whole heaven, the flood of emigration has poured in upon the United States....There has been nothing like it in appearance since the encampments of the Roman empire, or the tents of the crusaders. Democratic Review, June, 1852, page 566.

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