Excerpts from the book

Drew Keeling, The Business of Transatlantic Migration

between Europe and the United States, 1900-1914

(Zurich: Chronos, 2012)

 

From INTRODUCTION

Migration flows by port, 1900-1914

Introduction: new focus on migration as a business (scroll down for it)

Introduction: America's ancestor immigrants of the peak years

 

From CHAPTERS TEXT (see list on downloadable pdf here)

Early 20th century North Atlantic core of the migration travel business

(scroll down for it on that page)

The economics of migrant travel on North Atlantic steamships

The North Atlantic Fare War of 1904
U.S. immigration policy (scroll down for it on that page)

Transit migration (scroll down page)

Panic of 1907 and ensuing recession: impact on migration, shipping lines
Titanic: the unthinkable disaster and unsinkable lower classes

Outbreak of World War I: entry of Britain as crucial turning point

(scroll down that page for it)

 

From APPENDICES

Voyage database created for the book (description)

Migration statistics reworked for the book

Average steerage fare, Europe to U.S.A., 1901-13

Shipping line financial data (North Atlantic, 1900-14)

Steerage passenger volumes by shipping line (1900-13)

(scroll down that page for it)

 

Book-related background data:

Ships carrying the most European migrants to America

Capacity challenge: capacity usage low and sharply fluctuating

Size and speed of ships from Europe to New York, 1873-1914