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Titolo: |
Ulster to America : the Scots-Irish migration experience, 1680-1830 / / edited by Warren R. Hofstra
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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 | |
Altri autori: |
HofstraWarren R. <1947->
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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 ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-283-41170-9 |
9786613411709 | |
1-57233-832-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910812047903321 |
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