Rural Migration in England: The Long Historical Perspective

Joan Thirsk

Chapter 4 in Migrants in Agricultural Development, 1991, pp 32-55 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The migration of farmers to a new land and the agricultural consequences is a subject that is better documented in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries than at any earlier time. Yet it was a common experience in earlier periods throughout Europe. Indeed, its history goes back to the very beginnings of human settlement. It is worth surveying the past, therefore, in order to see the subject in longer historical perspective, for that longer view locates migration in a variety of different contexts, and gives a clearer measure of the influence that can be exercised by newcomers on agriculture and social life in their new home. This essay summarises the evidence in England before 1800, but an equally rich story could be told for Holland, Germany, France, Spain, and, indeed, all other countries of Europe.

Keywords: Historical Perspective; Agricultural Development; Sixteenth Century; Thirteenth Century; Rural Economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1991
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11830-4_4

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