Transatlantic Scots / edited by Celeste Ray ; foreword by James Hunter.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Ray, R. Celeste.; Hunter, James.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xiii, 365 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

Transatlantic Scots and ethnicity / Celeste Ray -- Scottish immigration and ethnic organization in the United States / Celeste Ray -- A brief history of organized Scottishness in Canada / Michael Vance -- From the Quebec-Hebrideans to "les ecossais-quebecois" : tracing the evolution of a Scottish cultural identity in Canada's eastern townships / Margaret Bennett -- Powerful pathos : the triumph of Scottishness in Nova Scotia / Michael Vance -- You play it as you would sing it : Cape Breton, Scottishness, and the means of cultural production / Jonathan Dembling -- The North American emigre, highland games, and social capital in international communities / Grant Jarvie -- Troubling times in the Scottish-American relationship / Andrew Hook -- Bravehearts and patriarchs : masculinity on the pedestal in southern Scottish heritage celebration / Celeste Ray -- Finding Colonsay's emigrants and a "heritage of place" / John W. Sheets -- Pilgrims to the far country : North American "roots-tourists" in the Scottish highlands and islands / Paul Basu -- Tartan day / Edward J. Cowan -- Transatlantic Scots, their interlocutors, and the Scottish discursive unconscious / Colin McArthur.