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Author:

Bankhurst, Benjamin, 1981- author.

Title:

Ulster Presbyterians and the Scots Irish diaspora, 1750-1764 / Benjamin Bankhurst.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xiii, 202 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Subject:

Scots-Irish--North America--History--18th century.
Irish--North America--History--18th century.
Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)--History--History--18th century.
North America--History--History--18th century.
Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)--Social conditions--18th century.
Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)--Foreign relations--North America.
North America--Foreign relations--Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: John Moore's crossing, 1760 -- Atlantic migration and North America in the Irish Presbyterian imagination -- The press, associational culture and popular imperialism in Ulster, 1750-1764 -- He never wants for suitable instruments: the Seven Years War as a war of religion -- Sorrowful spectators: Ulster Presbyterian opinion and American frontier atrocity -- An infant sister church, in great distress, amidst a great wilderness: American Presbyterian fundraising in Ireland, 1752-1763 -- Postscript: John Moore's return and reflections on America, 1763.

Series:

Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic world, 1500-1800

ISBN:

1137328193 (alk. paper)
9781137328199 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)869141161

LCCN:

2014002979

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)