William E Van Vugt
Biographic Data
| ID | 1102452 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William E Van Vugt |
| GIVEN NAMES | William E |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Vugt |
| SIGNATURE | VAN VUGT W E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Calvin University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Why We Left
Book Review| July 01 2014 Why We Left: Untold Stories & Songs of America’s First Immigrants Why We Left: Untold Stories & Songs of America’s First Immigrants. By Joanna Brooks. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. 208 pp. $22.95 (cloth). William E. Van Vugt William E. Van Vugt Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2014) 33 (4): 121–122. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.33.…
Prairie Fever
Scholars of British migration to America tend to focus on issues concerning the millions of skilled workers, laborers, and farmers who helped build the American industrial economy and push the frontier westward, while usually blending in with Americans relatively easily because of their common language and cultural roots. They ask whether British economic change “pushed” them out or American opportunity “pulled” them in. But in Prairie Fever, the…
Transatlantic Scots
Book Review| October 01 2006 Transatlantic Scots Transatlantic Scots, Celeste Ray. William E. Van Vugt William E. Van Vugt Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2006) 26 (1): 106–108. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501794 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation William E. Van Vugt; Transatlantic Scots. Journal of American Ethnic History 1…
Authors of Their Lives
When Charlotte Erickson published Invisible Immigrants: The Adaptation of English and Scottish Immigrants in Nineteenth-Century America (1972), she created a new model and set a very high standard for the study of immigrant letters. So thorough and insightful is that classic work that one may wonder why there should be another book on letters written by nineteenth-century British immigrants in America. David A. Gerber shows us why in this excelle…
Highland Heritage
Book Review| April 01 2002 Highland Heritage: Scottish Americans in the American South Highland Heritage: Scottish Americans in the American South, Celeste Ray. William E. Van Vugt William E. Van Vugt Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2002) 21 (3): 88–89. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502860 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Wi…
Britain to America
Journal Article Britain to America: Mid-Nineteenth-Century Immigrants to the United States. By William E. Van Vugt. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999. xiv, 241 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-252-02451-6. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-252-06757-6.) Get access John M. Bumsted John M. Bumsted St. John's College, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History,…
Running from Ruin
William E. van Vugt, Running from Ruin?: The Emigration of British Farmers to the U.S.A. in the Wake of the Repeal of the Corn Laws, The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 41, No. 3 (Aug., 1988), pp. 411-428
Prosperity and Industrial Emigration from Britain during the Early 1850s
Journal Article Prosperity and Industrial Emigration from Britain during the Early 1850s Get access William E. Van Vugt William E. Van Vugt Calvin College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 22, Issue 2, Winter 1988, Pages 339–354, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/22.2.339 Published: 01 December 1988
Running from Ruin
William E. van Vugt, Running from Ruin?: The Emigration of British Farmers to the U.S.A. in the Wake of the Repeal of the Corn Laws, The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 41, No. 3 (Aug., 1988), pp. 411-428
Prairie Fever
Scholars of British migration to America tend to focus on issues concerning the millions of skilled workers, laborers, and farmers who helped build the American industrial economy and push the frontier westward, while usually blending in with Americans relatively easily because of their common language and cultural roots. They ask whether British economic change “pushed” them out or American opportunity “pulled” them in. But in Prairie Fever, the…
Running from Ruin
William E. van Vugt, Running from Ruin?: The Emigration of British Farmers to the U.S.A. in the Wake of the Repeal of the Corn Laws, The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 41, No. 3 (Aug., 1988), pp. 411-428
Prosperity and Industrial Emigration from Britain during the Early 1850s
Journal Article Prosperity and Industrial Emigration from Britain during the Early 1850s Get access William E. Van Vugt William E. Van Vugt Calvin College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 22, Issue 2, Winter 1988, Pages 339–354, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/22.2.339 Published: 01 December 1988
Britain to America
Journal Article Britain to America: Mid-Nineteenth-Century Immigrants to the United States. By William E. Van Vugt. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999. xiv, 241 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-252-02451-6. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-252-06757-6.) Get access John M. Bumsted John M. Bumsted St. John's College, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History,…
Highland Heritage
Book Review| April 01 2002 Highland Heritage: Scottish Americans in the American South Highland Heritage: Scottish Americans in the American South, Celeste Ray. William E. Van Vugt William E. Van Vugt Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2002) 21 (3): 88–89. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502860 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Wi…
Transatlantic Scots
Book Review| October 01 2006 Transatlantic Scots Transatlantic Scots, Celeste Ray. William E. Van Vugt William E. Van Vugt Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2006) 26 (1): 106–108. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501794 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation William E. Van Vugt; Transatlantic Scots. Journal of American Ethnic History 1…
Authors of Their Lives
When Charlotte Erickson published Invisible Immigrants: The Adaptation of English and Scottish Immigrants in Nineteenth-Century America (1972), she created a new model and set a very high standard for the study of immigrant letters. So thorough and insightful is that classic work that one may wonder why there should be another book on letters written by nineteenth-century British immigrants in America. David A. Gerber shows us why in this excelle…
Prairie Fever
Scholars of British migration to America tend to focus on issues concerning the millions of skilled workers, laborers, and farmers who helped build the American industrial economy and push the frontier westward, while usually blending in with Americans relatively easily because of their common language and cultural roots. They ask whether British economic change “pushed” them out or American opportunity “pulled” them in. But in Prairie Fever, the…
Why We Left
Book Review| July 01 2014 Why We Left: Untold Stories & Songs of America’s First Immigrants Why We Left: Untold Stories & Songs of America’s First Immigrants. By Joanna Brooks. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. 208 pp. $22.95 (cloth). William E. Van Vugt William E. Van Vugt Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2014) 33 (4): 121–122. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.33.…
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