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Author Feys, Torsten, author.

Title The Battle for the Migrants : the Introduction of Steamshipping on the North Atlantic and its Impact on the European Exodus / Torsten Feys
Published St. John's, Newfoundland : International Maritime Economic History Association, 2013

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Description 1 online resource : charts, tables
Series Research in maritime history ; no. 50
Research in maritime history ; no. 50.
Contents Introduction -- Part I: State policies and their influence on the connections between maritime and migration networks, 1830-1870 -- Part II: The impact of steam shipping on Transatlantic migration, 1870-1914 -- The role of middlemen -- Competition and collusion: the growing pains of passenger shipping conferences -- The IMM merger and further consolidations in the shipping industry -- The nationalization of American migration policies and the visible hand of the shipping industry -- Shipping companies' interference with the enactment and implimentation of immigration laws during the Progressive Era -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Rates of the NDLV members for the American market -- Appendix 2: HAL total passengers, 1873-1914 -- Appendix 3: Total passengers of the main services on the North Atlantic and number of sailings, 1899-1914 -- Appendix 4: HAL through rates to and from hinterland destinations, 1893-1907 -- Appendix 5: New York agents and agents under bond, 1897-1909 -- Appendix 6: Advertisements by the HAL in American newspapers
Summary This book approaches the well-documented study of European mass migration to the United States of America from the viewpoint of mass migration as a business venture. The overall purpose is to demonstrate that maritime and migration histories are interlinked and dependent on a deeper understanding of the social, economic, and political factors at work in the nineteenth century Atlantic community. It centres on both the evolution of the port of Rotterdam as a migration gateway, and the crucial role of the Holland-America line as a regulator of the North American passenger trade. The first part of the book explores the simultaneous rise of transatlantic mass migration and long-distance steamshipping between 1830 to 1870. The second part, divided into five chapters, explores how mass migration became a big business between 1870 and 1914, and scrutinises how steamship companies organised and provided initiatives for transoceanic migration, plus the role of shipping agents and agent-networks, and how passenger services were constructed within transatlantic networks. Over the course of the text it becomes increasingly clear that by approaching mass migration as a trade issue, the role of steamship companies in the facilitation of transatlantic migration is rendered both intrinsic and pivotal. It consists of an introduction containing contextual information, two sections providing historical overviews, five chapters exploring different aspects of the shipping industry's response to mass migration, conclusion, bibliography, and six appendices of passenger, destination, agent, and advertising statistics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 24, 2018)
Subject Immigrants -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Immigrants -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Steamboats -- North Atlantic Ocean -- History
Shipping companies (Marine transportation) -- North Atlantic Ocean -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects
Immigrants
Shipping companies (Marine transportation)
Steamboats
SUBJECT Europe -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects
Subject Europe
North Atlantic Ocean
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author International Maritime Economic History Association, issuing body.
ISBN 9781786948854
1786948850