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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix PREFACE xi
TABLE OF CONTENTSCHAP.
I. INTRODUCTION. 1 The Emigration Tradition. 1 Emigration's Growing Appeal 4 Political Advent of Emigration 11
PART III. AGRICULTURISTS: CORE OF THE EMIGRATION MOVEMENT 25 The Farmer 28 The Welsh Agriculturists 32 The Gentry 36 The Farm Labourer 39 Promotion of Emigration by Agents for North Ameri- can Lands 49 Opposition to Agrarian Emigration. 64 Summation. 67 III. LABOUR : EMIGRATION A PALLIATIVE FOR PROBLEMS 76 Private Emigration 80 American-Promoted Group Projects 86 Trade Union Emigration 93 Communal Emigration Projects 99 Opposition and Alternatives to Labour Emigration 104 Summation 108 IV. HUMANITARIANS AND RELIGIONS: EXCURSIONS INTO EMIGRATION 115 The Emigration of Children 116 The Emigration of Vagabonds and Women 122 Emigration by Pietistic Groups 127 Religious Emigration 129 Mormon Emigration 135 Summation 141
THE EMIGRATION MOVEMENT
PART IIV. BUSINESS: EMIGRATION A PANACEA OR PANDORA 151 Emigration as a Profitable Enterprise 152 Emigration and North American Railroads 161 Texas and the Emigration Business 167 Business Opposition to Emigration 177 Summation 184 VI. GOVERNMENT: A POLICY OF ENLIGHTENMENT, LETHARGY, AND Laissez-Faire 192 Popular Demand for Assisted Emigration 194 Home and Colonial Emigration Policy to Mid-1846 201 Home and Colonial Emigration Policy after Mid-1846 211 Foreign and Territorial Emigration Policy to Mid-1846 218 Foreign and Territorial Emigration Policy after Mid- 1846 227 Summation 232 VII. EMIGRATION: PRACTICE AND THEORY 242 Emigration as a Practical Movement 243 Emigration as a Theoretical Issue 246 An Evaluation 247 APPENDIX 252 BIBLIOGRAPHY 267 INDEX 295
THE EMIGRATION MOVEMENT AS A PUBLIC ISSUE
LIST OF TABLESTABLE
I. Emigrants Sailing from the United Kingdom, 1815-60 257 2. English Sailing from United Kingdom Ports 260 3. Scots Sailing from United Kingdom Ports 261 4. Occupations of Emigrants Sailing from the United King- dom in 1856 262 5. Statutes at Large Relating to British Emigration, 1800-60 266
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