04593nam 2200517 450 991079853780332120170919223100.00-7618-6795-3(CKB)3710000000768642(EBL)4617157(OCoLC)954474595(MiAaPQ)EBC4617157(EXLCZ)99371000000076864220160825h20162016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierScottish migration since 1750 reasons and results /James C. DochertyLanham, [Maryland] :Hamilton Books,2016.©20161 online resource (205 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7618-6794-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Confronting Caledonia; Historians and Population History; Family and Population History; Unlocking Migration; What This Book Offers; Highlands, Lowlands, and Clearances; 1 Discovering the People; Scenery and Scarcity; A Blended People; Robert Wallace and the Population Debate; Alexander Webster's Scotland, c. 1751; Sir John Sinclair's Scotland, c. 1791; John Rickman and Scotland; Rev. Thomas Malthus and Scotland; How Many People?; Why Did the Population Grow after 1650?; A Mainly Female People?; James Cleland's Glasgow, 1820sEnlightenment IndeedWhat Were Their Names?; What Were Their Faiths?; Were They Married?; Household and Family Size; Only Slow Improvement, 1750-1900; 2 Scotland Made and Unmade; Not the Land of Opportunity; A Conscripted Urban People; The Victorian Economy: Mixed Results; Enter the Irish; The Slow Death of Labor Demand, 1901-1971; 3 No Simple Story; Destination Ulster, 1608-c. 1720; Scotland Revisited, c. 1720-1776; Destination North America, c. 1720-1776; The Expatriates Return, c. 1800-1820; The Two Sides of Scottish Migration, 1840-1930; How Many Left?; Not All It Seemed; Deciding to GoHelping the Poor and Getting Land, c. 1820-1880Looking for Work That Paid, c. 1870-1930; Where Did They Come From?; The Scottish Presence, c. 1930; What Future?; No Easy Answers; 4 England; The Manchester Scots, 1837; Henry Mayhew's London Scots, 1856; Important and Distinctive, 1820-1930; North England and London, 1841-1931; Presbyterianism; Where Did They Come From?; What Did They Do?; Were They Married?; Few Surprises; 5 North America; Making the Sources Speak; Did They Stay?; Where Did They Go?; What Did They Do?; What Were Their Names?; What Did They Believe In?; Were They Married?A World of Kith and KinThe 1900s; Moving On; John Kenneth Galbraith's The Scotch; Reluctant Americans?; How Well Did They Do?; Southward Bound?; 6 South Africa and Australasia; A Variable Presence; South Africa: Failure to Thrive; Success in the Antipodes: Australia and New Zealand; Gold and Distance; Did They Stay?; Governments Lend a Hand; Where Did They Go?; What Did They Do?; Were They Married?; Children; What Did They Believe In?; How Healthy Were They?; Only If Necessary; 7 A Changed World; Still Distressed: Scotland c. 1930-1970; First Choice: England; Less Popular: CanadaNot Really Wanted: United StatesStill Welcome: Australia and New Zealand; Putting It Together; The Man on the Bridge; Appendix A: Population Timeline; Appendix B: Scotland: The People's Names; Part 1: Scotland: Principal Family Names by Region and County, c. 1650; Appendix C: Some Vital Data; List of Tables; Bibliography; Introduction; Outline of the Bibliography; 1. Bibliographies and Genealogical Research Guides; 2. Scotland: General Surveys and Reference; 3. Scotland: Population History and Related Studies; 4. Immigration Encyclopedias and Population Histories5. Robert Wallace and the Population DebateThis work explains Scotland's population and migration history using new methods and unpublished sources. It surveys migration to England, Canada, United States, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand to 1990.ScotsForeign countriesHistoryScotsEthnic identityScotsHistory.ScotsEthnic identity.909.049163Docherty James C.1491825MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910798537803321Scottish migration since 17503713870UNINA