Migration, Mobility and Modernization

edited by
DAVID J. SIDDLE

CONTENTS
List of Figures vii
List of Tables ix
1 Introduction
DAVID SIDDLE, Liverpool University 1
2 Nephews, Dowries, Sons and Mothers: the Geography of Farm and
Marital Transactions in Eastern Ireland, c. 1820–c.1970
WILLIAM J. SMYTH, University College, Cork 9
3 Mobility, Kinship and Commerce in the Alps, 1500–1800
LAURENCE FONTAINE, CNRS, Paris and DAVID SIDDLE 47
4 People from the Pits: the Origins of Colliers in Eighteenth-Century
South-West Lancashire
JOHN LANGTON, St John’s College, Oxford 70
5 Motives to Move: Reconstructing Individual Migration Histories in
early Eighteenth-Century Liverpool
DIANA E. ASCOTT and FIONA LEWIS, Liverpool University 90
6 Urban Population and Female Labour: the Fortunes of Women
Workers in Rheims before the Industrial Revolution
ANTOINETTE FAUVE-CHAMOUX, Ecole des Hauts Etudes en
Sciences Sociales, Paris 119
7 Mobility Among Women in Nineteenth-Century Dublin
JACINTA PRUNTY, National University of Ireland, Maynooth 131
8 Tramping Artisans in Nineteenth-Century Vienna
JOSEF EHMER, Universität Salzburg 164
9 Migration and Urbanization in North-West England: a Reassessment
of the Role of Towns in the Migration Process
COLIN G. POOLEY and JEAN TURNBULL, Lancaster University 186
Index 215


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