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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
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Paperback. More than 100,000 Ulster Presbyterians of Scottish origin migrated to the American colonies in the six decades prior to the American Revolution. This book uncovers the ways in which migrants from Ulster - and thousands like them - forged new identities and how they conceived the wider transatlantic community. Num Pages: 264 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 1KBB; 3JD; 3JF; HBJK; HBLH; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 436.
More than 100,000 Ulster Presbyterians of Scottish origin migrated to the American colonies in the six decades prior to the American Revolution, the largest movement of any group from the British Isles to British North America in the eighteenth century. Drawing on a vast store of archival materials, The People with No Name is the first book to tell this fascinating story in its full, transatlantic context. It explores how these people--whom one visitor to their Pennsylvania enclaves referred to as "a spurious race of mortals known by the appellation Scotch-Irish"--drew upon both Old and New World experiences to adapt ... Read more
More than 100,000 Ulster Presbyterians of Scottish origin migrated to the American colonies in the six decades prior to the American Revolution, the largest movement of any group from the British Isles to British North America in the eighteenth century. Drawing on a vast store of archival materials, The People with No Name is the first book to tell this fascinating story in its full, transatlantic context. It explores how these people--whom one visitor to their Pennsylvania enclaves referred to as "a spurious race of mortals known by the appellation Scotch-Irish"--drew upon both Old and New World experiences to adapt ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691074627
SKU
V9780691074627
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About Patrick Griffin
Patrick Griffin is an Assistant Professor in the History Department of Ohio University.
Reviews for The People with No Name: Ireland´s Ulster Scots, America´s Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British Atlantic World, 1689-1764
"This highly recommended monograph is based on broad and deep archival research on both sides of the ocean and is written in a clear, lively style that quotes abundantly from contemporary sources."
Stanley H. Palmer, History "A good analysis of one of the several disaffected and displaced groups that occupied the margins of the colonial world."
Choice "In part, Griffin's book is ... Read more
Stanley H. Palmer, History "A good analysis of one of the several disaffected and displaced groups that occupied the margins of the colonial world."
Choice "In part, Griffin's book is ... Read more