Author: Erickson, Charlotte
Title: Leaving England: Essays on British Emigration in the Nineteenth Century
Description: Ithaca, Cornell University Press, (1994). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xv,272 pp. Textual tables. Minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction: Leaving England; Agrarian Myths of English Immigrants; British Immigrants on the Old Northwest, 1815-1860; Who Were the English and Scots Emigrants to the United States in the Late 19th- Century?; Emigration from the British Isles to the United States of America in 1831; Depression Emigrants: Who Went Where from the British Isles in 1841?; Was the American West a Safety Valve for Lancashire?; Englishwomen in America in the 19th-Century; Expectations & Reality.

Keywords: British Americans, Great Britain, United States, Immigration English, Emigration England, Immigrants Emigrant, Immigrant Emigrants, Social Historical, Migration History