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Why did very large numbers of people begin to depart the British Isles for the New Worlds after about 1770? They were the vanguard of mass economic migration, the carriers of new global labour forces, agents of dispossession and settlement, of family dreams, of individual aspirations, of imperial strategies. But it was new in scale, and it was a pioneering movement, a rehearsal for modern international migration. These first mass inter-continental stirrings began most of all in the British Isles. What activated these great exchanges of humanity, the precursors of so much modern population transfer and turmoil around the globe? This is a question in the middle of most genealogies and central to the making of the modern world.

Migration, Internal. --- Emigration and immigration. --- Migration, Internal --- Livres numériques. --- Emigration and immigration --- Internal migration --- Mobility --- Population geography --- Internal migrants --- Immigration --- International migration --- Migration, International --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Colonization --- History. --- Great Britain. --- Great Britain --- Anglia --- Angliyah --- Briṭanyah --- England and Wales --- Förenade kungariket --- Grã-Bretanha --- Grande-Bretagne --- Grossbritannien --- Igirisu --- Iso-Britannia --- Marea Britanie --- Nagy-Britannia --- Prydain Fawr --- Royaume-Uni --- Saharātchaʻānāčhak --- Storbritannien --- United Kingdom --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland --- Velikobritanii͡ --- Wielka Brytania --- Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta --- Northern Ireland --- Scotland --- Wales --- British Isles. --- British emigration. --- British industrialization. --- Ironbridge/Coalbrookdale district. --- Isle of Man. --- Malthusian model. --- New Worlds. --- North America. --- North Tipperary. --- Scottish Highlands. --- Shropshire. --- Wales. --- West Cork. --- West Sussex. --- agrarian turmoil. --- emigration history. --- international migration. --- mass migration. --- oceanic emigration. --- rural societies.