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Ulster to America : the Scots-Irish migration experience, 1680-1830 / edited by Warren R. Hofstra.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scots-Irish--United States--History--18th century.
- Scots-Irish.
- Scots--Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)--History--18th century.
- Scots.
- Scots-Irish--United States--History.
- Scots--Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)--History.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--History--18th century.
- United States.
- Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)--Emigration and immigration--History--18th century.
- Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland).
- United States--Emigration and immigration--History.
- Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)--Emigration and immigration--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-41170-9
- 9786613411709
- 1-57233-832-6
- OCLC:
- 772845099
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