1st Edition
Tales of Transit Narrative Migrant Spaces in Atlantic Perspective, 1850-1950
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
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Tales of Transit brings together advances from the fields of transportation and social history, translation studies and literary scholarship to cast new light on the great transatlantic migration movements from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. For a long time, these movements have been studied from the perspective of the sending and receiving societies, while not much... Read more
Acknowledgements, Introduction, PART 1: RETHINKING ATLANTIC MIGRATION, PART 2: OFF THE BEATEN TRACK, PART 3: LIMINAL SPACES, About the Authors, Index
Biography
Michael Boyden is Assistant Professor of American Culture at Ghent University College, Belgium Hans Krabbendam is assistant director of the Roosevelt Study Center in Middelburg and author of Vrijheid in het verschiet. Nederlandse emigratie naar Amerika, 1840-1920.
