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.

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.

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.

Scotland and America, c.1600-c.1800
Scotland and America, c.1600-c.1800

Author: Alexander Murdoch

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2009-12-18

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1137108355

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While the literature relating to Scottish contact with America has grown significantly in recent years, the influence of America on Scotland and its early modern history has been neglected in favour of a preoccupation with Scottish influence on the formation of North American national identities. Alexander Murdoch's fascinating new study explores Scottish interactions with North America in a desire to open up fresh perspectives on the subject. Scotland and America, c.1600-c.1800 - Surveys the key centuries of economic, migratory and cultural exchange, including Canada and the Caribbean - Discusses Scottish participation in the Atlantic slave trade and the debate over its abolition - Considers the Scottish experience of British unionism with respect to developing American traditions of unionism in the U.S. and Canada Incorporating the latest research, this is essential reading for anyone interested in the dynamic relationship between Scotland and America during a key period in history.

Kingdom of the Mind
Kingdom of the Mind

Author: Peter E. Rider

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2006-04-05

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 0773584145

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In A Kingdom of the Mind ethnographers, material culture specialists, and contributors from a wide variety of disciplines explore the impact of the Scots on Canadian life, showing how the Scots' image of their homeland and themselves played an important role in the emerging definition of what it meant to be Canadian.

Empire and Globalisation
Empire and Globalisation

Author: Gary B. Magee

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-02-11

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1139487671

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Focusing on the great population movement of British emigrants before 1914, this book provides a perspective on the relationship between empire and globalisation. It shows how distinct structures of economic opportunity developed around the people who settled across a wider British World through the co-ethnic networks they created. Yet these networks could also limit and distort economic growth. The powerful appeal of ethnic identification often made trade and investment with racial 'outsiders' less appealing, thereby skewing economic activities toward communities perceived to be 'British'. By highlighting the importance of these networks to migration, finance and trade, this book contributes to debates about globalisation in the past and present. It reveals how the networks upon which the era of modern globalisation was built quickly turned in on themselves after 1918, converting racial, ethnic and class tensions into protectionism, nationalism and xenophobia. Avoiding such an outcome is a challenge faced today.

Strangers at Our Gates
Strangers at Our Gates

Author: Valerie Knowles

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2016-03-05

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1459732863

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An exploration of how immigration has shaped Canadian identity, and how modern debates are reshaping our national character. In this history of immigration to Canada, Valerie Knowles explores the kinds of immigrants who have settled in Canada as well as the immigration policies, policymakers, and public figures who have played a part in the story.