Transatlantic Scots

Transatlantic Scots [electronic resource] / edited by Celeste Ray ; foreword by James Hunter. - Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2005. - xiii, 365 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Transatlantic Scots and ethnicity / Celeste Ray -- Scottish immigration and ethnic organization in the United States / Celeste Ray -- A brief history of organized Scottishness in Canada / Michael Vance -- From the Quebec-Hebrideans to "les écossais-québécois" : tracing the evolution of a Scottish cultural identity in Canada's eastern townships / Margaret Bennett -- Powerful pathos : the triumph of Scottishness in Nova Scotia / Michael Vance -- You play it as you would sing it : Cape Breton, Scottishness, and the means of cultural production / Jonathan Dembling -- The North American émigré, highland games, and social capital in international communities / Grant Jarvie -- Troubling times in the Scottish-American relationship / Andrew Hook -- Bravehearts and patriarchs : masculinity on the pedestal in southern Scottish heritage celebration / Celeste Ray -- Finding Colonsay's emigrants and a "heritage of place" / John W. Sheets -- Pilgrims to the far country : North American "roots-tourists" in the Scottish highlands and islands / Paul Basu -- Tartan day / Edward J. Cowan -- Transatlantic Scots, their interlocutors, and the Scottish discursive unconscious / Colin McArthur.


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Scots--History.--North America
Scots--Social life and customs.--North America
Scots--Ethnic identity.--North America
Regionalism--North America.
Transnationalism.


Scotland--Emigration and immigration--History.
North America--Emigration and immigration--History.
North America--Ethnic relations.


Electronic books.

E49.2.S3 / T73 2005eb

305.891/63073