British Emigration Research Articles

Appleyard R.T. — British Emigration to Australia

Appleyard R.T. — British Emigration to Australia

British Emigration to Australia

British Emigration to Australia

British emigration to British North America. By Helen I. Cowan. New edition. Pp. xi, 321. Toronto: Toronto University Press; London: Oxford University Press. 1961. 56s.

British emigration to British North America. By Helen I. Cowan. New edition. Pp. xi, 321. Toronto: Toronto University Press; London: Oxford University Press. 1961. 56<i>s</i>.

Malthus on Emigration and Colonization: Letters to Wilmot-Horton

Students of the history of British emigration know Wilmot-Horton2 as a tenacious but eccentric advocate of the doctrine of state-aided emigration, who was in correspondence with Malthus on the subject of colonization. It is known vaguely that he had intended to publish either the whole or a part of his correspondence with Malthus, probably in a fifth series of his Causes and Remedies of Pauperism, the first four series of which, together with an introductory volume, had appeared in 1829-30.3 But little more than this was really known about Malthus's letters. An unpublished Bristol University thesis (1936) by E. G. Jones on Wilmot-Horton mentions and quotes very briefly from a letter from Malthus to Horton, which is referred to as being then at Catton Hall, Staffordshire. Our attempt to locate the Malthus-Horton correspondence led us to the Central County Library at Derby where the bulk of the Horton family papers were deposited about two years ago. But although we came upon some interesting papers in this collection, we were unable to find any Malthus letters. However, Mr. D. W. H. Neilson, the present owner of Catton Hall, generously agreed to a further search being made there, and he, Professor Hutchison and I recently (March 1962) discovered in the cellars a further collection of interesting papers, including the manuscript letters of Malthus. All these papers are also deposited at Derby.4 The Malthus letters-twenty in all and dating from February, 1823 to May, 1831-were carefully preserved in two separate files. All the letters were written to Horton, except one, dated May 24, 1829, which was addressed to Senior who presumably passed it on to Horton. Along with these two files there was a manuscript of 86 foolscap pages covering part of the Malthus-Horton correspondence. It was probably

British Emigration to British North America: The First Hundred Years

British Emigration to British North America: The First Hundred Years

British Emigration to British North America. The First Hundred Years

British Emigration to British North America. The First Hundred Years

British Emigration to British North America: The First Hundred Years. Helen I. Cowan

<i>British Emigration to British North America: The First Hundred Years</i>. Helen I. Cowan

British Emigration to British North America: The First Hundred Years

British Emigration to British North America: The First Hundred Years

Some Psycho-Social Aspects of British Emigration to Australia

little has been done to investigate the same process at a social psychological level, though comments on the need for such studies are sometimes found (e.g. Weinberg, I955). Among the questions posed by both approaches are: 'Why do people emigrate?' and 'What kind of people emigrate?' The sociologist, historian, or economist has tended to look for the ways in which the old region is economically, politically, religiously or socially repellant and the new region correspondingly attractive (e.g.Jerome, I926; Kirk and Huyck, I954; Johnson, I9I3). In this way a macroscopic answer is pronded to the question of 'Why do people emigrate?' Similarly, an examlnation of the age distribution, sex, occupation, education, marital status, locality and so on of those who emigrate provides a macroscopic answer to the second question of 'What kind of people emigrate?' (e.g. Ravenstein, I885; I889: Thomas, I938). These two questions, however, have a slightly different significance to the social psychologist who wants to know what factors in the experience of the individual deterne the decision to emigrate and in particular what personality and situational differences exist between those who decide to emigrate and those who do not. One of the main reasons why research at this level has so seldom been undertaken in the past has been the difficulty of identifiring intending emigrants before they leave their home region. It is the purpose of this paper to attempt two things. First, to outline a conceptual framework for thinking more systematically about the emigration process at the social psychological level; and second, to illustrate the use of this conceptual framework by reference to a study of some Briesh skilled manual workers who were intending emigrants to Austrafia between I954-5.

British Emigration to North America: Projects and Opinions in the Early Victorian Period

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British Emigration to North America: Projects and Opinions in the Early Victorian Period

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British Emigration to North America: Projects and Opinions in the Early Victorian Period. W. S. Shepperson

Previous articleNext article No AccessReviews of BooksBritish Emigration to North America: Projects and Opinions in the Early Victorian Period. W. S. Shepperson Helen I. CowanHelen I. Cowan Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Modern History Volume 29, Number 4Dec., 1957 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/238120 Views: 1Total views on this site Copyright 1957 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

British Emigration to North America: Projects and Opinions in the Early Victorian Period

Journal Article British Emigration to North America: Projects and Opinions in the Early Victorian Period. By W. S. Shepperson. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1957. xvi + 302 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, appendixes, bibliography, and index. $5.00.) Get access Roger V. Clements Roger V. Clements Manchester, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 44, Issue 3, December 1957, Pages 552–553, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887035 Published: 01 December 1957

The Promotion of British Emigration by Agents for American Lands, 1840-1860

<i>The Promotion of British Emigration by Agents for American Lands, 1840-1860</i>

The Promotion of British Emigration by Agents for American Lands, 1840-1860

<i>The Promotion of British Emigration by Agents for American Lands, 1840-1860</i>

Immigration in the British Commonwealth

A P E P broadsheet, "People for the Commonwealth" (No. 226), gives a review, with statistical appendix, of prospects for migration to the Dominions. The broadsheet concludes that the sparsely populated Dominions would benefit from a marked increase in population: their standard of living would thereby be higher and their military security buttressed. Natural increase is bound to be slight, even if the decline in fertility in the Dominions can be checked and even if death-rates continue to fall. There is no alternative to immigration, and it has been estimated that Canada should have 50 instead of 11·5 million people, Australia 20 instead of 7 million, South Africa 5 instead of 2·5 million white people, New Zealand 5 instead of 1·5 million. In the past, non-British immigration has been rigidly restricted to safeguard the British character of the Dominions, which still want British emigrants. All the Dominion Governments are receiving applications from people who want to leave Britain; but such discrimination will in future be incompatible with a large volume of immigration, since there are not likely to be many British emigrants after the War; nor will there be many from the other nationalities which have traditionally been preferred. In the inter-war period, Britain assisted emigrants to the Dominions. If such assistance is once again given after the War and evokes substantial response, the imminent decline in British population will be hastened, and in view of its ageing population, Britain's own standards of living will thereby be prejudiced and the task of reversing the decline made more difficult. If immigration from Asia is excluded, the only remaining source will be the countries of southern and eastern Europe, and there is no reason for thinking that, given time and expansionist economies in the Dominions, nationals of these countries could not be successfully absorbed.

British Emigration to British North America, 1783-1837

British Emigration to British North America, 1783-1837

The Scientific Study of Settlement

F ROM time to time it is announced that the pioneer has vanished, that the world has filled up with humanity. This is like saying that the age of exploration is over because man has reached the two poles. To the Canadian at the edge of cultivation in the prairie provinces or to a Chinaman on the plains of Inner Mongolia or northern Manchuria it will be news that his conquest of the soil is over. Where the Kansas pioneer was in 1885, there the Canadian pioneer is today. Though he has more technic offered him, he yet leads a life of experiment at the edge of the plowed land. The million-acre ranch was once a feature of our West. The famous XIT, or Farwell, ranch of Texas with over 3,000,000 acres of land was the theme of many a Western booster to whom such size meant not empty country but a symbol of the typical American scale of thought and living. Today we look to Rhodesia for the like. The London Times for July reports Sir Abe Bailey's purchase from the British South Africa Company of the Rhodesdale Estates (near Gatooma, southwest of Salisbury)I600 square miles, or 1,019,542 acres! Between the Limpopo River and Victoria is a second tract of nearly 2,750,000 acres purchased for over ?500,000 by Sir David P. de V. Graaft and Sir Ernest Oppenheimer.1 In the November, 1925, issue of the new Economic Record of Australia there is an account of the trials of the pioneer near Perth, West Australia. Under the Land Settlement Act of 1922 there was set in motion the machinery for enticing the settler to the edge of cultivation, thus winning taxable land and the asset of new population streams at one stroke. It was an outgrowth of a British imperial policy destined to direct British emigrants to land within the empire. It called for cooperation between dominion and home government in the matter of subsidies. It was of the type of induced settlement, under a subsidy plan, to strengthen not only a nation but the empire of which it is a part. There are two aspects to this pouring out of humanity upon land capable of agricultural development that are of supreme social significance today. The one is the huge scale on which landed estates

Art. XXIX.—Notes on Health in Calcutta and British Emigrant Ships, including Ventilation, Diet, and Disease.

Art. XXIX.—Notes on Health in Calcutta and British Emigrant Ships, including Ventilation, Diet, and Disease.