Ulster to America: The Scots-Irish Migration Experience, 1680-1830, (Paperback)

<p> In <i>Ulster to America: The Scots-Irish Migration Experience, 1680-1830</i>, editor Warren R. Hofstra has gathered contributions from pioneering scholars who are rewriting the history of the Scots-Irish. In addition to presenting fresh information based on thorough and detailed research, they offer cutting-edge interpretations that help explain the Scots-Irish experience in the United States. In place of implacable Scots-Irish individualism, the writers stress the urge to build communities among Ulster immigrants. In place of rootlessness and isolation, the authors point to the trans-Atlantic continuity of Scots-Irish settlement and the presence of Germans and Anglo-Americans in so-called Scots-Irish areas. In a variety of ways, the book asserts, the Scots-Irish actually modified or abandoned some of their own cultural traits as a result of interacting with people of other backgrounds and in response to many of the main themes defining American history. <br> While the Scots-Irish myth has proved useful over time to various groups with their own agendas--including modern-day conservatives and fundamentalist Christians--this book, by clearing away long-standing but erroneous ideas about the Scots-Irish, represents a major advance in our understanding of these immigrants. It also places Scots-Irish migration within the broader context of the historiographical construct of the Atlantic world. <br> Organized in chronological and migratory order, this volume includes contributions on specific U.S. centers for Ulster immigrants: New Castle, Delaware; Donegal Springs, Pennsylvania; Carlisle, Pennsylvania; Opequon, Virginia; the Virginia frontier; the Carolina backcountry; southwestern Pennsylvania, and Kentucky. <i>Ulster to America</i> is essential reading for scholars and students of American history, immigration history, local history, and the colonial era, as well as all those who seek a fuller understanding of the Scots-Irish immigrant story. </p>

• Ulster to America: The Scots-Irish Migration Experience, 1680-1830, (Paperback)
• Author: University of Tennessee Press
• ISBN: 9781621902638
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2021-06-01
• Page Count: 296