t their life and family in their homeland to come to a foreign land that they did not know if they would be able to survive to try to make a better life for themselves. I understand that many of the Irish immigrants were very poor peasants and desperately wanted a better life but migrating from Ireland to eastern Canada was a very big risk to take and the immigrants were extremely courageous to make the journey. I also thought that the chapter on the house dwellings contained good information.. I feel this way because it is sort of interesting to see what the interiors and exteriors of the old 18th century homes looked like and how they were constructed. I also believe the transfer and adaptation section was good because it brought the book together at the end in an orderly fashion and reiterated the some of the main points the author made in the book. I also thought that the illustrations in the book were useful in being able to give you some sense of what things looked like back then. I also think tables and charts contain some good information as well. This is some of the good and effective information I believe the author relates in this book. I really enjoyed this book because it contained so much interesting information so I don’t believe there are too many weak points. I though the chapter on the field systems was a bit dull though. Compared to the rest of the book, I though that this chapter was not as good and didn’t really contain information that was too interesting. This is about the only portion of the book I believe to be weak. I also found it difficult at times to distinguish between the three study areas involved in the book. The book contains some extra sections in it. It contains a lengthy index and a extensive bibliography. The bibliography is twenty four pages long and consists a lot of secondary information from many magazines, books, newspapers, journals, and expert testimony. The bibl...
