Voyagers to the West : A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Analyzes the movement of English emigrants to North America between 1773 and 1776.;An expanded world, 1760-1776 -- The dilemma of British policy -- Searching for the facts : the origin and character of the Register of Emigrants -- Magnitudes, locations, and flow -- Identities and motivations : the dual emigration -- Arrivals and destinations -- The demand -- Sources -- Recruitment -- Sales and distribution -- Yorkshire and the maritime Northeast -- Failure in Xanadu -- Gulf and Delta -- North Carolina : the wreck of the Bachelor -- Georgia : exploiting the ceded lands -- New York : swarming to the north. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Saloutos Prize of the Immigration History Society Bailyn's Pulitzer Prize-winning book uses an emigration roster that lists every person officially known to have left Britain for America from December 1773 to March 1776 to reconstruct the lives and motives of those who emigrated to the New World. " Voyagers to the West is a superb book...It should be equally admired by and equally attractive to the general reader as to the professional historian."--R.C. Simmons, Journal of American Studies