Land Privatisation and the Exodus from 19th-Century Galicia (opens in new tab)

In this blog post Angel Muniz-Mejuto (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) presents their research, some of which was presented at the recent EHS Conference. — The ‘Age of Mass Migration’ is often pictured as a grand, rational calculation of wage gaps and Malthusian pressures. In the standard narrative, millions of Europeans boarded steamships for the Americas […] The post Land Privatisation and the Exodus from 19th-Century Galicia appeared first on Economic History Society.