Global Migrations : : The Scottish Diaspora since 1600 /

Global Migrations : : The Scottish Diaspora since 1600 / / John MacKenzie, Angela McCarthy.

A tribute to Professor Sir Tom Devine, FBA, the leading historian of modern Scotland and its diasporaThe impact of Scottish migration since 1600 at home and abroadFrom the seventeenth century to the current day, more than 2.5 million Scots have sought new lives elsewhere. This book of essays from es...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
VerfasserIn:
McCarthy, Angela,
MacKenzie, John ,
MitwirkendeR:
Allan, Stuart,
Alston, David,
Calloway, Colin G.,
Curthoys, Ann,
Fitzpatrick, David,
Forsyth, David,
Grant, Erin C. M.,
Hesse, David,
MacKenzie, John M.,
Mackillop, Andrew,
McCarthy, Angela,
Paul, Tawny,
Richards, Eric,
Watson, Iain,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2016
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 20 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • Notes on the Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • A Tribute to Sir Tom Devine
  • Introduction Global Migrations: The Scottish Diaspora since 1600
  • 'As Hewers of Wood, and Drawers of Water'? Scotland as an Emigrant Nation, c. 1600 to c. 1800
  • 'You Have Only Seen the Fortunate Few and Draw Your Conclusion Accordingly': Behavioural Economics and the Paradox of Scottish Emigration
  • Scottish Diasporas and Africa
  • 'Have the Scotch no Claim upon the Cherokees?' Scots, Indians and Scots Indians in the American South
  • Conflicts of Interest, Crises of Conscience: Scots and Aboriginal People in Eastern Australia, 1830s-1861
  • The Importance of Scottish Origins in the Nineteenth Century: James Taylor and Ceylon Tea
  • 'Our Old World Diff'rences are Dead': The Scottish Migrant Military Tradition in the British Dominions during the First World War
  • 'Part of my Heritage': Ladies' Pipe Bands, Associational Culture and 'Homeland' Identities in the Scottish Diaspora
  • Understanding Scottishness among Sojourners, Settlers and Descendants in Hong Kong and New Zealand
  • Encountering an Imaginary Heritage: Roots Tourism and the Scottish Diaspora
  • Home is where the Heart is: Affinity Scots in the Scottish Diaspora
  • What Scottish Diaspora?
  • Afterword
  • Index

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