{"product_id":"emigration-from-the-united-kingdom-to-america-9780810860063","title":"Emigration from the United Kingdom to America","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eApproximately three fifths of the emigration from the United Kingdom to America arrived in the 19th century. The remainder came through Ellis Island between 1900 and 1924. Arrivals from the U.K. began to increase in the mid-1840''s with the Irish Famine that led to very high mortality rates, rising prices and unemployment and a massive outflow of Irish population to the U.S. In the post-Famine period, England''s industrial revolution progressed and emigration continued to grow between the prosperous 1850''s and the mid-1890''s.   This series on Emigration from the United Kingdom to America concentrates on U.K. emigration in the period 1870-1897, listing migrants from the U.K. who arrived in New York. The original passenger lists transcribed by shipping agents and ship''s officers and filed by all vessels entering U.S ports have been used in the preparation of Emigration from the United Kingdom to America. Presented in chronological order by each ship''s date of arrival, these passenger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume, the fourth in the series, contains a list of English, Welsh, Scottish, and Irish immigrants who arrived at the port of New York from July 1871 to April 1872. Passenger lists are arranged chronologically by date of arrival and include names and information on age, sex, occupation, nationality, residence, and planned destination. Other data includes deaths during the voyage, names of ships, ports of embarkation, and date of arrival in New York City. Within each manifest, names are listed alphabetically. The information comes from the original US ship manifest collection in the National Archives. The introduction discusses migration theory and background on the emigration. * Reference and Research Book News, November 2007 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 1 Introduction Part 2 List of Codes Part 3 Passenger Lists Part 4 Index","brand":"Scarecrow Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038336516439,"sku":"9780810860063","price":155.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780810860063.jpg?v=1750939969","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/emigration-from-the-united-kingdom-to-america-9780810860063","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}