The Scots in Australia / Malcolm Prentis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prentis, Malcolm D. (Malcolm David), 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scots--Australia--History.

Scots.

Scotland--Emigration and immigration--History.

Scotland.

Australia--Emigration and immigration--History.

Australia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 334 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Sydney : University of New South Wales Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Scots have been 'invisible' ethnics but happen to be Australia's third largest immigrant group. The Scots in Australia is a long overdue and comprehensive history of Scottish immigrants - including convicts and free settlers - and their descendants in Australia from 1788 to the present. Combining anecdote, biography and straightforward history, author Malcolm Prentis reevaluates commonly held assumptions and myths from both ends of the migration process. Malcolm Prentis shows that the Scots have had an influence in Australia disproportionate to their numbers.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Homeland and farewell; Doing time; Arriving; Settling the land; Doing business; Political life; Defending the country; Educating and healing; Kirk and people; Celebrating Caledonian culture; Influencing Australian culture; Popular culture; Playing sport; The assimilated legacy; Notes; index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-324) and index.

ISBN:

1-74223-065-2

OCLC:

437108243