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    'Disencumbering our crowded places': theory and practice of estate emigration schemes in mid-nineteenth century Ireland


    Duffy, Patrick J. (2004) 'Disencumbering our crowded places': theory and practice of estate emigration schemes in mid-nineteenth century Ireland. In: To and from Ireland: planned migration schemes c. 1600-2000. Geography Publications, pp. 79-104. ISBN 0 906602 37 8

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    Abstract

    The schemes of assisted emigration which were adopted by private owners of landed estates in Ireland in the middle decades of the nineteenth century grew out of a discourse of political economy which was heavily influenced by the ideas on overpopulation of Thomas Malthus and his disciples. Many of their arguments which were rehearsed in the 1820s debates on emigration, echo through the correspondence on estate emigration in the mid nineteenth century.

    Item Type: Book Section
    Keywords: Malthus; Emigration; Demography; Population; Landlords; Landed estate.
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography
    Item ID: 1251
    Depositing User: Prof. Patrick Duffy
    Date Deposited: 17 Feb 2009 16:52
    Publisher: Geography Publications
    Refereed: Yes
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      Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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