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Author:

Devine, T. M. (Thomas Martin)

Title:

To the ends of the earth : Scotland's global diaspora 1750-2010 / T.M. Devine.

Publisher:

Allen Lane ;

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

xvii, 397 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Scots--Foreign countries--History.
Civilization, Modern--Scottish influences.
Scotland--History.--History.
Scotland--Civilization.
Great Britain--History.--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Imperial Scots 1750-1815 -- Did slavery help to make Scotland great? -- Industrial and financial sinews of Scottish global power 1815-1914 -- The great migration -- Human selection and enforced exile -- In the land of the free: Scots and Irish in the USA -- Emigrant experience in the new lands -- Settlers, traders and native peoples -- The missionary dynamic -- Soldiers of empire -- Funding the new lands -- Eclipse of empires -- Diaspora 1945-2010.

ISBN:

0713997443 (hbk.)
9780713997446 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)743440316

Locations:

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)