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Record Nr.

UNINA9910157419803321

Autore

McMaster Richard K

Titolo

Scotch-Irish Merchants in Colonial America [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Belfast, : Ulster Historical Foundation, 2009

ISBN

1-908448-12-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (600 p.)

Disciplina

973.308

Soggetti

Scots-Irish - History - 18th century - United States

Flax industry - History - 18th century - United States

Merchants - History - 18th century

Gender & Ethnic Studies

Social Sciences

Ethnic & Race Studies

Electronic books.

Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) Emigration and immigration History

Ireland Emigration and immigration History

United States Emigration and immigration History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 "Novel Traffics"; 2 Scowbanckers and Redemptioners; 3 The Flaxseed Trade Begins; 4 Transatlantic Partners - Patterns of Trade; 5 Into the Backcountry; 6 From Ulster to the Carolinas; 7 Merchants in Politics; 8 A Scotch-Irish Boom Town; 9 Emigration at High Tide; 10 Patterns of Emigration; 11 Non-Importation, Non-Exportation, and the Flaxseed Trade; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

During the course of the eighteenth century, migration from Europe and Africa shaped the emerging consciousness and culture of the American Colonies. Whether free, bond servant, or slave, migrants brought skills and folkways from their motherlands, contributing to the agricultural and commercial development as well as to the peopling of



North America. Emigrants from Ulster, the northern province of Ireland, did all of this and more. Ulster exported an economy.  This new book tells the story of the transatlantic links between Ulster and America in the eighteenth century. The author draw