Migration, mobility, and modernization / edited by David J. Siddle.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / David Siddle -- Nephews, dowries, sons and mothers : the geography of farm and marital transactions in eastern Ireland, c. 1820-c. 1970 / William J. Smyth -- Mobility, kinship, and commerce in the Alps, 1500-1800 / Laurence Fontaine and David Siddle -- People from the pits : the origins of colliers in eighteenth-century south-west Lancashire / John Langton -- Motives to move : reconstructing individual migration histories in early eighteenth-century Liverpool / Diana E. Ascott and Fiona Lewis -- Urban population and female labour : the fortunes of women workers in Rheims before the Industrial Revolution / Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux -- Mobility among women in nineteenth-century Dublin / Jacinta Prunty -- Tramping artisans in nineteenth-century Vienna / Josef Ehmer -- Migration and urbanization in north-west England : a reassessment of the role of towns in the migration process / Colin G. Pooley and Jean Turnbull.

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This study gives fresh insights into the processes of movement of European populations, which reveal much more complex circulatory behaviour than the standard models derived from census and registration sources alone have suggested.