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Ulster to America [[electronic resource] ] : the Scots-Irish migration experience, 1680-1830 / / edited by Warren R. Hofstra



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Titolo: Ulster to America [[electronic resource] ] : the Scots-Irish migration experience, 1680-1830 / / edited by Warren R. Hofstra Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Knoxville, : University of Tennessee Press, 2012
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 p.)
Disciplina: 973/.0049163
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: 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
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Altri autori: HofstraWarren R. <1947->  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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
Titolo autorizzato: Ulster to America  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-41170-9
9786613411709
1-57233-832-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910465753003321
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