基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2006.
Full Description
Through a unique approach connecting personal accounts to 'networks' of kin and social groups, 'A Global Clan' engages in expanding debates on migration that link imperial history and the European diaspora. Migration from Scotland since the eighteenth century has been a powerful force, influencing the politics, economics, demography, sociology, and culture of many regions across the world. This book uses new material to explore Scottish migrant networks, identities, and personal experiences in areas as diverse as India, New Zealand, and Canada. Assorted migrant voices are presented, from Ellis Island and Australia, the tracts of transients in Asia and the Caribbean, and voluminous correspondence from North America. The overarching approach promises a significant contribution to the historiography that will make it essential reading for scholars of migration and identity.
Contents
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)
