P C Emmer Institute for the History of European Expansion,Leiden University M Morner Emeritus Professor of History, Gothenburg University

'... an enlightening and well-documented world survey.' Economic Affairs

• European expansion and migration - the European colonial past and intercontinental migration, an overview, P.C. Emmer; Portuguese emigration from the 15th to the 20th century - constants and changes, Vitoino Magalhaes Godinho; Irish emigration, 1700-1920, William J. Smyth; the push and pull factors behind the Swedish emigration to America, Canada and Australia, Lars Ljungmark; Icelandic emigration, Helgi Skuli Kjartansson; German transatlantic emigration in the 19th and 20th centuries, Klaus J.Bade; Italian emigration in the post-unification period, 1861-1971, Luigi de Rosa; British immigration into India in the 19th century, P.J. Marshall; emigration from Western Africa, 1807-1940, W.C. Clarence-Smith; immigration into Latin America, especially Argentina and Chile, Magnus Morner; immigration into the Caribbean - the introduction of Chinese and East Indian indentured labourers between 1839-1917, P.C. Emmer; divergent perspectives, Magnus Morner.