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Informationen zum Autor Angela McCarthy is Research Fellow at the Arts and Humanities Research Board Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen. Klappentext 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 forces shaping international politics and even war. The authors use new material to explore Scottish migrant networks and personal experiences in areas such as the Caribbean! New Zealand and Australia. Vorwort Explores the impact of Scottish migration on New World development. With a fresh 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. It is suitable for scholars interested in migration and its implications. Zusammenfassung Explores the impact of Scottish migration on New World development. With a fresh 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. It is suitable for scholars interested in migration and its implications. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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)...
