Voyagers to the west : emigration from Britain to America on the eve of the Revolution

Bernard Bailyn · Barbara Blanchard DeWolfe

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Part 1 Background - the magnet of the west: an expanded world, 1760-1776 the dilemma of British policy searching for the facts - the origin and character of the register of emigrants. Part 2 Dimensions: magnitudes, locations and flow identities and motivations - the dual emigration arrivals and destinations. Part 3 Mobilizing a labour force: the demand sources recruitment sales and distribution. Part 4 Peopling the peripheral lands - the extremities: Yorkshire and the maritime northeast failure in Xanadu Gulf and Delta. Part 5 Peopling the peripheral lands - the great inland arc: North Carolina - the wreck of the Bachelor Georgia - exploiting the ceded lands New York - swarming to the north.

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