Atlantic Migration: 1607-1860

This book is one of the major works of Professor Marcus Lee Hansen, a famous immigration history expert, and won the 1941 Pulitzer Prize for History. Unlike most experts on immigration history, Professor Marcus Lee Hansen studies immigration issues from a European rather than an American perspective: How do changes in farming forms and land ownership, the rise of industry, natural disasters, political oppression, religious discrimination, and coercive policies of immigration agencies intertwined to lead to the formation of immigration waves? What possibilities does the development of science and technology provide for the formation of immigration waves? Why did people at that time spend everything they had in order to design a sailing route? As the paradise that people yearn for, why is there a low tide of immigration in the United States? Why does the U. S. Government sometimes actively promote and sometimes deliberately hinder immigration? In short, this book reproduces the magnificent history of civilian immigrants from major European countries to the United States from the 17th to the 19th century in an epic style.