‘Hayhoe’s creativity in this book should not go unnoticed… His finding that no local policies prohibited migrations and that provincial authorities attempted to make them as orderly as possible highlights the use of history to create a better understanding of the present.’ - Jérôme Loiseau (Journal of Interdisciplinary History vol 47:04:2016) "Hayhoe does more than simply document mobility…he explains why peasants moved to certain villages rather than others." - Stephen Miller (The American Historical Review, Volume 123, Issue 1, 1 February 2018) "Jeremy Hayhoe’s excellent new study of rural migration in eighteenth-century northern Burgundy makes an important contribution towards renewing our understanding of the social life of the early modern French countryside…This is a model study, whose claims for a high degree of rural mobility in early modern France are convincing and important and whose broader claims about the consequences of this fact for rethinking social life and cultural identity are suggestively thought-provoking. Hayhoe’s book merits an important place in the historiography of mobility and early modern rural life." - Paul Cohen, University of Toronto (University of Toronto Quarterly, vol 87 3, Summer 2018)