Scottish migration since 1750 : reasons and results / / James C. Docherty

• Autore: Docherty James C.
• Pubblicazione: Lanham, [Maryland] : , : Hamilton Books, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (205 p.)
• Disciplina: 909.049163
• Soggetto topico: Scots - Foreign countries - History; Scots - Ethnic identity
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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, 1820s ; Enlightenment 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 Go ; Helping 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: Canada ; Not 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 Histories ; 5. Robert Wallace and the Population Debate
• Sommario/riassunto: This 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Scottish migration since 1750
• ISBN: 0-7618-6795-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818277003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II