Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Leaving the Islands; Chapter 2: The Westward Thrust; Chapter 3: Atlantic Take-Off; Chapter 4: Crossing the Atlantic; Chapter 5: The Reluctant Diaspora; Chapter 6: The Age of Industrialisation; Chapter 7: The Beginnings of Mass Emigration; Chapter 8: Full Spate; Chapter 9: The High Noon of Victorian Emigration; Chapter 10: The Last Atlantic Wave; Chapter 11: Empire and Retreat; Chapter 12: The End of Diaspora; Chapter 13: Retrospect; Chapter 14: Scatterings

About the Author

Eric Richards is Professor of History at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia and author of The Highland Clearances.

Reviews

'the book provides great background material...extensive end notes...and a good bibliography relating to British emigrants who moved around the world.' ~ Paul Milner, FGS Forum, 2006
*Paul Milner*