A Global Clan Scottish Migrant Networks and Identities Since the Eighteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9781848859654 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 256 str.

Angela McCarthy

Opis

A Global Clan explores the impact of Scottish migration on New World development. With a new approach linking personal accounts to ""networks"" of kin and social groups, this book taps into the expanding academic debate on migration linking imperial history and the European diaspora. Migration from the British ""Celtic fringe"" since the eighteenth century has had a significant impact on the politics, economics, demography, sociology, and culture of the New World, as a force shaping international politics and even war. The contributors use new material to explore Scottish migrant networks and personal experiences in areas as diverse as India, New Zealand, and Australia. Here are assorted migrant voices from Ellis Island and Australia, the tracts of transients in Asia and the Caribbean, and the voluminous correspondence of a specific individual or family in North America. The overarching approach, linking personal accounts to wider networks of kinship and society, promises a significant contribution to the historiography that will make it essential reading for scholars interested in migration and its implications.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Personal Testimonies and Scottish Migration (Angela McCarthy) 2. Europeans, Britons, and Scots: Scottish Sojourning Networks and Identities in Asia, c. 1700-1815 (Andrew Mackillop) 3. Transatlantic Ties: Scottish Migration Networks in the Caribbean, 1750-1800 (Douglas Hamilton) 4. The World of John Rose: A Northeastern Scot’s Career in the British Atlantic World, c. 1740-1800 (Douglas Catterall) 5. A Network of Two: Personal Friendship and Scottish Identification in the Correspondence of Mary Ann Archbald and Margaret Wodrow, 1807-1840 (David A. Gerber) 6. ‘In Quist Of A Better Hame’: A Transatlantic Lowland Scottish Network in Lower Canada, 1800-1850 (Sarah Katherine Gibson) 7. Scottish Networks and Voices in Colonial Australia (Eric Richards) 8. Weaving the Tartan into the Flax: Networks, Identities, and Scottish Migration to Nineteenth-Century Otago, New Zealand (Tom Brooking) 9. Ethnic Networks and Identities Among Inter-war Scottish Migrants in North America (Angela McCarthy) 10. ‘We’re Not Poms’: The Shifting Identities of Post-war Scottish Migrants to Australia (A. James Hammerton)