Britain to America: Mid-Nineteenth-Century Immigrants to the United States.(Review)~(book review)

Publication: Journal of American Ethnic History

Publication Date: 01-JAN-01

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COPYRIGHT 2001 Transaction Publishers, Inc.

By William E. Van Vugt. Champagne: University of Illinois Press, 1999. xi + 241 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography and index. $49.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

This is a very welcome book both for its quality and its subject matter.

Though significant forces in America's development, English, Scottish and Welsh immigrants are relatively rarely treated in historical studies. In his introduction, William Van Vugt partly attributes historians' relative lack of interest in the subject to the comparatively meagre historical sources that are available. It is thus all the more a tribute to the author's meticulous and copious research that we are given...

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