Braided motivations for Iceland's first wave of mass emigration to North America after the 1875 Askja eruption

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F86652079%3A_____%2F24%3A00584918" target="_blank" >RIV/86652079:_____/24:00584918 - isvavai.cz</a>

Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/00216224:14310/24:00135785

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10113-024-02215-6" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10113-024-02215-6</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10113-024-02215-6" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10113-024-02215-6</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Braided motivations for Iceland's first wave of mass emigration to North America after the 1875 Askja eruption

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

More than 14,000 Icelanders emigrated to North America between 1870 and 1914 CE. Mass movement from Iceland accelerated the year after the explosive eruption of Askja in 1875, and both contemporary and recent commentators have linked the two circumstances. Despite an abundant scholarship on Icelandic emigration in this period, the direct and indirect roles of the eruption as a possible stimulus remain unclear. Here, we engage critically with a range of contemporary source materials as well as meteorological and climatological information to re-assess where Askja fits into the picture of Iceland's first wave of mass migration. We find that emigration was undoubtedly fuelled by the hardships of Icelanders and their growing contacts with countrymen already in the Americas, and that the highest proportions of emigrants came from counties most directly impacted by the Askja eruption. However, it also emerges that the eruption served as a lever for interested parties in Britain and Canada to persuade large numbers of desirable migrants to settle in North America. Our study highlights the opportunities that discrete episodes of volcanic activity present to probe the complex interrelationships of nature and society.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Braided motivations for Iceland's first wave of mass emigration to North America after the 1875 Askja eruption

Popis výsledku anglicky

More than 14,000 Icelanders emigrated to North America between 1870 and 1914 CE. Mass movement from Iceland accelerated the year after the explosive eruption of Askja in 1875, and both contemporary and recent commentators have linked the two circumstances. Despite an abundant scholarship on Icelandic emigration in this period, the direct and indirect roles of the eruption as a possible stimulus remain unclear. Here, we engage critically with a range of contemporary source materials as well as meteorological and climatological information to re-assess where Askja fits into the picture of Iceland's first wave of mass migration. We find that emigration was undoubtedly fuelled by the hardships of Icelanders and their growing contacts with countrymen already in the Americas, and that the highest proportions of emigrants came from counties most directly impacted by the Askja eruption. However, it also emerges that the eruption served as a lever for interested parties in Britain and Canada to persuade large numbers of desirable migrants to settle in North America. Our study highlights the opportunities that discrete episodes of volcanic activity present to probe the complex interrelationships of nature and society.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

10510 - Climatic research

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA23-08049S" target="_blank" >GA23-08049S: Středoevropské HYDRoklima na základě stabilních izotopů z dubových letokrůhů za posledních 8000 let – HYDRO8</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Regional Environmental Change

ISSN

1436-3798

e-ISSN

1436-378X

Svazek periodika

24

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

DE - Spolková republika Německo

Počet stran výsledku

14

Strana od-do

48

Kód UT WoS článku

001187602400002

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85188059963