Includes bibliographical references (p. [198]-223) and index.
Contents
What this book is about -- The Atlantic region in the late nineteenth century -- Fertility and mortality -- Migration : general patterns and motives -- Britain (England-Wales and Scotland) -- Ireland -- Scandinavia -- The German empire -- Austria-Hungary and Russia, Jews and Poles -- Italy -- Spain and Portugal -- Argentina -- Brazil -- Canada --United States of America -- Modernization, transition, and exceptionalism.