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Bailyn, Bernard.
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Immigrants -- North America -- History -- 18th century.
British -- North America -- History -- 18th century.
Pulitzer Prize for Works of History.
Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 18th century.
North America -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 18th century.
United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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Bailyn, Bernard.
Immigrants -- North America -- History -- 18th century.
British -- North America -- History -- 18th century.
Pulitzer Prize for Works of History.
Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 18th century.
North America -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 18th century.
United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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Voyagers to the West : a passage in the peopling of America on the eve of the Revolution / Bernard Bailyn with the assistance of Barbara DeWolfe.
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Bailyn, Bernard.
Vintage Books, 1988, c1986.
Call #:
304
.873
B161v
Subjects
Immigrants -- North America -- History -- 18th century.
British -- North America -- History -- 18th century.
Pulitzer Prize for Works of History.
Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 18th century.
North America -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 18th century.
United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
ISBN:
9780394757780 (pbk.)
Description:
xxvii, 668 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Notes:
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1986.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
An expanded world, 1760-1776 -- The dilemma of British policy -- Searching for the facts : the origin and character of the Register of Emigrants -- Magnitudes, locations, and flow -- Identities and motivations : the dual emigration -- Arrivals and destinations -- The demand -- Sources -- Recruitment -- Sales and distribution -- Yorkshire and the maritime Northeast -- Failure in Xanadu -- Gulf and Delta -- North Carolina : the wreck of the Bachelor -- Georgia : exploiting the ceded lands -- New York : swarming to the north.
Summary:
Bailyn's Pulitzer Prize-winning book uses an emigration roster that lists every person officially known to have left Britain for America from December 1773 to March 1776 to reconstruct the lives and motives of those who emigrated to the New World. The book chronicles the migration of British and Scottish farmers into colonial America in the 1770s. Bernard Bailin is the author of The Barbarous Years: the Peopling of British North America: the conflict of civilizations, 1600-1675.
Awards:
Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for History - the second time Bailyn won the award.
Other authors:
DeWolfe, Barbara.
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304.873 B161v
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