Tenants wanted: the promotion of immigration to the New World, 1607-1776 -- Antebellum immigration promotion by states, 1845-1860 -- Corporate immigration promotion and labor recruitment in the nineteenth century -- Selling the promised land: religious and philanthropic promotion -- Immigration...

Mirando atrás : Mexican immigration from 1876 to 2000 / Jaime R. Aguila and Brian Gratton -- Through the northern Borderlands : Canada-U.S. migrations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Bruno Ramirez -- The making and unmaking of the circum-Caribbean migratory sphere : mobility, sex...

"Unassuming but formidable, American maritime insurers used their position at the pinnacle of global trade to shape the new nation. The international information they gathered and the capital they generated enabled them to play central roles in state building and economic development. Deeply and...