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Titolo |
Ulster to America : the Scots-Irish migration experience, 1680-1830 / / edited by Warren R. Hofstra |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Knoxville, : University of Tennessee Press, 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-41170-9 |
9786613411709 |
1-57233-832-6 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (297 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Scots-Irish - United States - History - 18th century |
Scots - Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) - History - 18th century |
Scots-Irish - United States - History |
Scots - Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) - History |
United States Emigration and immigration History 18th century |
Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) Emigration and immigration History 18th century |
United States Emigration and immigration History |
Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) Emigration and immigration History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: From the north of Ireland to North America: the Scots-Irish and the migration experience / Warren R. Hofstra -- Searching for a new world: the background and baggage of Scots-Irish immigrants / David W. Miller -- Searching for land: the role of New Castle, Delaware, 1720s-1770s / Marianne S. Wokeck -- Searching for order: Donegal Springs, Pennsylvania, 1720s-1730s -- Richard K. MacMaster -- Searching for community: Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1750s-1780s / Richard K. MacMaster -- Searching for peace and prosperity: Opequon settlement, Virginia, 1730s-1760s / Warren R. Hofstra -- Searching for status: Virginia's Irish tract, 1770s-1790s / Katharine L. Brown and Kenneth W. Keller -- Searching for security: backcountry Carolina, 1760s-1780s / Michael Montgomery -- Searching for "Irish" freedom- |
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settling for "Scotch-Irish" respectability: southwestern Pennsylvania, 1780-1810 / Peter Gilmore and Kerby A. Miller -- Searching for independence: revolutionary Kentucky, Irish American experience, and Scotch-Irish myth, 1770s-1790s / Patrick Griffin -- Afterword: historic political moderation in the Ulster-to-America diaspora / Robert M. Calhoon. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In Ulster to America: The Scots-Irish Migration Experience, 1680-1830, editor Warren R. Hofstra has gathered contributions from pioneering scholars who are rewriting the history of the Scots-Irish. In addition to presenting fresh information based on thorough and detailed research, they offer cutting-edge interpretations that help explain the Scots-Irish experience in the United States. In place of implacable Scots-Irish individualism, the writers stress the urge to build communities among Ulster immigrants. In place of rootlessness and isolation, the authors point to the tran |
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