04049nam 2200685Ia 450 991081204790332120200520144314.01-283-41170-997866134117091-57233-832-6(CKB)2560000000079366(EBL)834997(OCoLC)772845099(SSID)ssj0000576205(PQKBManifestationID)11345294(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000576205(PQKBWorkID)10553396(PQKB)10565470(MiAaPQ)EBC834997(MdBmJHUP)muse18489(Au-PeEL)EBL834997(CaPaEBR)ebr10594464(CaONFJC)MIL341170(EXLCZ)99256000000007936620110711d2012 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrUlster to America the Scots-Irish migration experience, 1680-1830 /edited by Warren R. Hofstra1st ed.Knoxville University of Tennessee Press20121 online resource (297 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-57233-754-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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-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. 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 tranScots-IrishUnited StatesHistory18th centuryScotsUlster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)History18th centuryScots-IrishUnited StatesHistoryScotsUlster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)HistoryUnited StatesEmigration and immigrationHistory18th centuryUlster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)Emigration and immigrationHistory18th centuryUnited StatesEmigration and immigrationHistoryUlster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)Emigration and immigrationHistoryScots-IrishHistoryScotsHistoryScots-IrishHistory.ScotsHistory.973/.0049163Hofstra Warren R.1947-1613732MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910812047903321Ulster to America4094855UNINA