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Rosalind Mitchison

  • The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction by Bernard Bailyn
    Tauris, 177 pp, £12.95, April 1987, ISBN 1 85043 037 3
  • Voyagers to the West: Emigration from Britain to America on the Eve of the Revolution by Bernard Bailyn
    Tauris, 668 pp, £29.50, April 1987, ISBN 1 85043 038 1
  • Migration and Society in Early Modern England edited by Peter Clark and David Souden
    Hutchinson, 355 pp, £25.00, February 1988, ISBN 0 09 173220 4
  • Gypsy-Travellers in 19th-Century Society by David Mayall
    Cambridge, 261 pp, £25.00, February 1988, ISBN 0 521 32397 5

‘The great thing to be determined was whether there was a Call from God or not.’ So wrote a missionary about his move to Australia in the 1880s. It is not a view expressed in that mysterious body of argument, migration theory, and this fact is a useful reminder of the limitations of that doctrine, which ranges from the fatuous to the sophisticated, but holds entirely to secular motivation. God is not one of its hypotheses.

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