Across the North Sea : The impact of the Dutch Republic

For a long time the early modern population of North Western Europe has been looked upon as fairly sedentary. Although since the 1980s new research has shown that people were much more mobile than was earlier acknowledged, in many historical works either the industrial revolution or the Napoleonic period continue to be regarded as a caesura in the migratory behaviour of people. In this dissertation the size, direction and the mechanisms behind the pre-industrial migrations from the countries bordering the North Sea for a period of over 250 years (ca. 1550-1800) were under scrutiny. The reconst... Mehr ...