Death in the Diaspora : : British and Irish Gravestones /

Death in the Diaspora : : British and Irish Gravestones / / Nicholas Evans, Angela McCarthy.

A pioneering comparative study of migrant death markers across the British and Irish worlds and what they can tell us about notions of ‘home’Sets out an innovative agenda for comparative analysis of death markers in different parts of the formal and informal British EmpireProvides analyses based on...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
VerfasserIn:
Evans, Nicholas,
McCarthy, Angela,
MitwirkendeR:
Evans, Nicholas J.,
Linkletter, Michael,
McCarthy, Angela,
McEgan, Janine,
Mytum, Harold,
Payton, Philip,
Stanley-Blackwell, Laurie,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2020
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Studies in British and Irish Migration : SBIM
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.) :; 43 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • The Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Series Editors’ Introduction
  • 1 Introduction – Death in the Diaspora: British and Irish Gravestones
  • 2 Forgetting and Remembering: Scots and Ulster Scots Memorials in Eighteenth-century Ulster, Pennsylvania and Nineteenth-century New South Wales
  • 3 Imposing Identity: Death Markers to ‘English’ People in Barbados, 1627–1838
  • 4 Looking for Thistles in Stone Gardens: The Cemeteries of Nova Scotia’s Scottish Immigrants
  • 5 Scottish Gravestones in Ceylon in Comparative Perspective
  • 6 Irish Memorialisation in South Australia, 1850–99
  • 7 Memorialising the Diasporic Cornish
  • 8 Documents in Stone: Records of Lives and Deaths of Scots Abroad and in Scotland
  • 9 Conclusion
  • Index

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