书目名称 | Quality of Life and Early British Migration |
编辑 | Thomas Jordan |
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概述 | Is the first book to apply a quality-of-life approach to two groups of early British emigrants.Provides a life-cycle view of emigrants and their quality of life in the USA and Australia.Creates profil |
丛书名称 | SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research |
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描述 | .This book discusses the quality of life of early modern Britons emigrating to the New World, which became possible with advances in shipbuilding and long-distance sailing. It examines the status and quality of life of those crossing the Atlantic Ocean under legal contract, the indenture – largely to the Carolinas and the communities adjoining Chesapeake Bay in the USA in the 17th century, and also describes and numerically estimates the quality of life among Britons sentenced to “transportation beyond the seas,” who were transported to Australia in the mid-19th century. The author examines the experience of migrants, both adults and children, traveling to the New World and their fate, drawing on documentary sources like state historical records as well as self-documentation from the few surviving diaries. The book also creates profiles of the quality of life of emigrants by gender and age and places the processes of emigration in the social–political contexts of the 17th and 19th centuries..By considering ways in which aspects of social life were organized in eras before structural inquiry into the quality of life, the book provides interesting historical perspectives as well as m |
出版日期 | Book 2020 |
关键词 | British Migration; Forced Migration to the Antipodes; Indentured British labor in the USA; NICQL Index; |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33077-4 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-33076-7 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-33077-4Series ISSN 2211-7644 Series E-ISSN 2211-7652 |
issn_series | 2211-7644 |
copyright | The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 |