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Author Griffin, Patrick, 1965-

Title The people with no name : Ireland's Ulster Scots, America's Scots Irish, and the creation of a British Atlantic world, 1689-1764 / Patrick Griffin.

Imprint Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2001.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  973.049163 G875p 2001    ---  Available
Description xv, 244 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-238) and index.
Contents Introduction : Identity in an Atlantic world -- The transformation of Ulster society in the wake of the Glorious Revolution -- "Satan's sieve" : crisis and community in Ulster -- "On the wing for America" : Ulster Presbyterian migration, 1718-1729 -- "The very scum of mankind" : settlement and adaptation in a new world -- "Melted down in the heavenly mould" : responding to a changing frontier -- "The Christian white savages of Peckstang and Donegall" : surveying the frontiers of an Atlantic world.
Subject Scots-Irish -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Scots-Irish -- United States -- History -- 17th century.
Scots -- Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) -- History.
Scots -- Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) -- Migrations -- History.
Presbyterians -- Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) -- History.
Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- America.
ISBN 0691074623 (pbk.)
0691074615 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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