Introduction

Why do we need another study on European mass migration to the United States during the long nineteenth century at a time when many historians are encouraging a shift away from an Atlantic and modern focus that has long dominated the sub-discipline? 1 The answer is that we need such a study because...

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Main Author: Feys, Torsten
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Published: Liverpool University Press 2012
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North Atlantic
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781927869000.003.0001
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