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Ulster to America : the Scots-Irish migration experience, 1680-1830 / edited by Warren R. Hofstra.

Other author/creatorHofstra, Warren R., 1947-
Format Electronic and Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoKnoxville : University of Tennessee Press,
Description263 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from UPCC Books 2011 History Collection Supplement
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Supplemental Content Full text available from UPCC Books History 2011 Subject Collection
Subject(s)
Scots-Irish--United States --History --18th century.
Scots--Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) --History --18th century.
Scots-Irish--United States --History.
Scots--Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) --History.
United States--Emigration and immigration --History --18th century.
Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)--Emigration and immigration --History --18th century.
United States--Emigration and immigration --History.
Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)--Emigration and immigration --History.
Contents Introduction: From the north of Ireland to North America: the Scots-Irish and the migration experience / Warren R. Hofstra -- Searching for a new world: the background and baggage of Scots-Irish immigrants / David W. Miller -- Searching for land: the role of New Castle, Delaware, 1720s-1770s / Marianne S. Wokeck -- Searching for order: Donegal Springs, Pennsylvania, 1720s-1730s -- Richard K. MacMaster -- Searching for community: Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1750s-1780s / Richard K. MacMaster -- Searching for peace and prosperity: Opequon settlement, Virginia, 1730s-1760s / Warren R. Hofstra -- Searching for status: Virginia's Irish tract, 1770s-1790s / Katharine L. Brown and Kenneth W. Keller -- Searching for security: backcountry Carolina, 1760s-1780s / Michael Montgomery -- Searching for "Irish" freedom-settling for "Scotch-Irish" respectability: southwestern Pennsylvania, 1780-1810 / Peter Gilmore and Kerby A. Miller -- Searching for independence: revolutionary Kentucky, Irish American experience, and Scotch-Irish myth, 1770s-1790s / Patrick Griffin -- Afterword: historic political moderation in the Ulster-to-America diaspora / Robert M. Calhoon.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2011029288
ISBN9781572337541 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN1572337540 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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