The people with no name : Ireland's Ulster Scots, America's Scots Irish, and the creation of a British Atlantic world, 1689-1764 Patrick Griffin

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Griffin, Patrick, 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scots-Irish--United States--History--18th century.

Scots-Irish.

Scots-Irish--United States--History--17th century.

Scots--Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)--History.

Scots.

Scots--Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)--Migrations--History.

Presbyterians--Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)--History.

Presbyterians.

Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)--Emigration and immigration--History.

Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland).

United States--Emigration and immigration--History.

United States.

United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Great Britain--Colonies--America--History--18th century.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Colonies--America--History--17th century.

British--Atlantic Ocean Region--History--17th century.

British.

British--Atlantic Ocean Region--History--18th century.

Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)--Relations--United States.

United States--Relations--Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland).

Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)--History--18th century.

Local Subjects:

Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)--Relations--United States.

United States--Relations--Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland).

Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)--History--18th century.

Physical Description:

xv, 244 p. : maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2001.

Contents:

Introduction: Identity in an Atlantic world

The transformation of Ulster society in the wake of the Glorious Revolution

"Satan's sieve": crisis and community in Ulster

"On the wing for America": Ulster Presbyterian migration, 1718-1729

"The very scum of mankind": settlement and adaptation in a new world

"Melted down in the heavenly mould": responding to a changing frontier

"The Christian white savages of Peckstang and Donegall": surveying the frontiers of an Atlantic world.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-238) and index.

Local Notes:

The Scotch-Irish Foundation Collection.

ISBN:

0691074615 (cloth : alk. paper)

9780691074610 (cloth : alk. paper)

0691074623 (pbk.)

9780691074627 (pbk.)

OCLC:

46359613

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