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Early Modern Migration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2009

Roger Thompson
Roger Thompson
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Roger Thompson is aReader in the School of English and American Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, England.
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Journal of American Studies , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , April 1991 , pp. 59 - 69
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43 Virginia De John Anderson's adaptation of her Harvard University Ph.D. dissertation of 1987 is expected in the spring of 1991; Susan Hardman Moore is completing an important study of remigration between 1640 and 1660; Stephen Fender has just completed a study of the rhetoric of early migration, to be published by Cambridge later this year.