Title: Ulster to America: The Scots-Irish Migration Experience, 1680-1830
Abstract:Readers interested in colonial and early American life will be delighted by the work of Warren R. Hofstra and his team of contributing writers that includes the notable historians Patrick Griffin, Ker...Readers interested in colonial and early American life will be delighted by the work of Warren R. Hofstra and his team of contributing writers that includes the notable historians Patrick Griffin, Kerby A. Miller, Richard K. MacMaster, Marianne S. Wokeck, and linguist Michael Montgomery. They form quite an impressive lot of Scots-Irish scholars. The authors have crafted a series of temporally situated case studies to cast light on one of the most amorphous ethnic groups ever to set foot on the mid-Atlantic area of the American colonies. One of the authors' objectives is to dispel myths associated with the group. Because of the absence of a common ethnic identity among the settlers and the different push and pull factors that affected successive waves of immigrants from Ulster, it is inviting to accept the authors' contention that these folk were indeed less stereotypical than the buckskinned frontiersman of popular imagination. However, dispelling the image of backcountry pioneers in search of natural liberty, which David Hackett Fischer so boldly described in Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (1989), is an ambitious aim for such a small book. The writers succeed in showing that early American settlers from Ulster were a diverse lot made up of frontier-oriented homesteaders, adventurers, and well-educated clergy and business folk.Read More
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-08-20
Language: en
Type: article
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