Canadian Migration Patterns from Britain and North America
Canadian Migration Patterns from Britain and North America

Author: Barbara Jane Messamore

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 0776605437

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"This collection of essays represents a selection of the papers presented at the 1998 Migration conference at the Centre of Canadian Studies at the University of Edinburgh."--Acknowledgements.

Emigration from Scotland between the wars
Emigration from Scotland between the wars

Author: Marjory Harper

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2017-03-01

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1526119668

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Emigration from Scotland has always been very high. However, emigration from Scotland between the wars surpassed all records; more people emigrated than were born, leading to an overall population decline. Why was it so many people left? Marjory Harper, whose knowledge is grounded in a deep understanding of the local records, maps out the many factors which worked together to cause this massive diaspora. After an opening section where the author sets the Scottish experience within the context of the rest of the British Isles, the book then divides the country geographically, starting with the Highlands, then coastal Scotland, and the urban Lowland highlighting in turn the factors that particularly influenced each of these areas. Harper then discusses the organised religious and political movements that encouraged emigration. By interweaving personal stories with statistical evidence Harper brings to life the reality behind the dramatic historical migration.

Carolina Scots
Carolina Scots

Author: Douglas F. Kelly

Publisher: Seventeen Thirty Nine Publications

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13:

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"Part I stands on its own as an historical study of early emigrations following the lead of the Argyll Colony in 1739 ... Part II provides a comprehensive listing of names and locations of Scottish North and South Carolina families beginning in 1739 and continuing with the descendents down to three, four or five generations for nearly a century."--Front flap of jacket.

Canadian History: Beginnings to Confederation
Canadian History: Beginnings to Confederation

Author: Martin Brook Taylor

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1994-01-01

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 9780802068262

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"In these two volumes, which replace the Reader's Guide to Canadian History, experts provide a select and critical guide to historical writing about pre- and post-Confederation Canada, with an emphasis on the most recent scholarship" -- Cover.

The Scottish Experience in Asia, c.1700 to the Present
The Scottish Experience in Asia, c.1700 to the Present

Author: T. M. Devine

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-11-22

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 3319430742

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This pioneering volume focuses on the scale, territorial trajectories, impact, economic relationships, identity and nature of the Scottish-Asia connection from the late seventeenth century to the present. It is especially concerned with identifying whether there was a distinctive Scottish experience and if so, what effect it had on the East. Did Scots bring different skills to Asia and how far did their backgrounds prepare them in different ways? Were their networks distinctive compared to other ethnicities? What was the pull of Asia for them? Did they really punch above their weight as some contemporaries thought, or was that just exaggerated rhetoric? If there was a distinctive ‘Scottish effect’ how is that to be explained?

Irish Nationalism and the British State
Irish Nationalism and the British State

Author: Brian Jenkins

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2006-05-12

Total Pages: 601

ISBN-13: 0773577750

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Drawing on an immense body of literature and research, Brian Jenkins analyses the forces that shaped mid-nineteenth century Irish nationalism in Ireland and North America as well as the role of the Roman Catholic Church. He outlines the relationship between newly arrived Irish Catholic immigrants and their hosts and the pivotal role of the church in maintaining a sense of exile, particularly among those who had fled the famine. Jenkins also explores the essential "Irishness" of the revolutionary movement and the reasons why it did not emerge in the two other "nations" of the United Kingdom, Scotland and Wales.

Emigrant homecomings
Emigrant homecomings

Author: Marjory Harper

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2017-03-01

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1526119641

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Emigrant Homecomings addresses the significant but neglected issue of return migration to Britain and Europe since 1600. While emigration studies have become prominent in both scholarly and popular circles in recent years, return migration has remained comparatively under-researched, despite evidence that in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries between a quarter and a third of all emigrants from many parts of Britain and Europe ultimately returned to their countries of origin. Emigrant Homecomings analyses the motives, experiences and impact of these returning migrants in a wide range of locations over four hundred years, as well as examining the mechanisms and technologies which enabled their return. The book examines the multiple identities that migrants adopted and the huge range and complexity of homecomers’ motives and experiences. It also dissects migrants' perception of ‘home’ and the social, economic, cultural and political change that their return engendered.

Scotland's Populations from the 1850s to Today
Scotland's Populations from the 1850s to Today

Author: Michael Anderson

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018-03-01

Total Pages: 503

ISBN-13: 0192528408

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Scotland's Populations is a coherent and comprehensive description and analysis of the most recent 170 years of Scottish population history. With its coverage of both national and local themes, set in the context of changes in Scottish economy and society, this study is an essential and definitive source for anyone teaching or writing on modern Scottish history, sociology, or geography. Michael Anderson explores subjects such as population growth and decline, rural settlement and depopulation, and migration and emigration. It sets current and recent population changes in their long-term context, exploring how the legacies of past demographic change have combined with a history of weak industrial investment, employment insecurity, deprivation, and poor living conditions to produce the population profiles and changes of Scotland today. While focussing on Scottish data, Anderson engages in a rigorous treatment of comparisons of Scotland with its neighbours in the British Isles and elsewhere in Europe, which ensures that this is more than a one-country study.