Migration and the origins of the English Atlantic world
By: Alison Games.
Series: Harvard historical studies ;; v. 133
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
Subjects: Immigrants -- New England -- History -- 17th century.; Immigrants -- West Indies, British -- History -- 17th century.; British -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History -- 17th century.; Immigrants -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.; Ships -- England -- London -- Passenger lists.; New England -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 17th century.; West Indies, British -- History -- 17th century.; New England -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 17th century.; West Indies, British -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 17th century.; Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 17th century.
Description: "England's seventeenth-century colonial empire in North America and the Caribbean was created by migration. The quickening pace of this essential migration is captured in the London port register of 1635, the largest extant port register for any single year in the colonial period and unique in its record of migration to America and to the European continent.

Alison Games analyzes the 7,500 people who traveled from London in that year, recreating individual careers, exploring colonial societies at a time of emerging viability, and delineating a world sustained and defined by migration."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-299) and index.