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1 online resource (382 pages) |
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Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Introduction; 1. Transatlantic Scots and Ethnicity; 2. Scottish Immigration and Ethnic Organization in the United States; 3. A Brief History of Organized Scottishness in Canada; 4. From the Quebec-Hebrideans to "les cossais-Qubcois": Tracing the Evolution of a Scottish Cultural Identity in Canada's Eastern Townships; 5. Powerful Pathos: The Triumph of Scottishness in Nova Scotia; 6. You Play It as You Would Sing It: Cape Breton, Scottishness, and the Means of Cultural Production. |
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7. The North American migr, Highland Games, and Social Capital in International Communities8. Troubling Times in the Scottish-American Relationship; 9. Bravehearts and Patriarchs: Masculinity on the Pedestal in Southern Scottish Heritage Celebration; 10. Finding Colonsay's Emigrants and a "Heritage of Place"; 11. Pilgrims to the Far Country: North American "roots-tourists" in the Scottish Highlands and Islands; 12. Tartan Day in America; 13. Transatlantic Scots, Their Interlo. |
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Examines the impact of the Scottish legacy on North American cultures and heritage. During the past four decades, growing interest in North Americans' cultural and ancestral ties to Scotland has produced hundreds of new Scottish clan and heritage societies. Well over 300 Scottish Highland games and gatherings annually take place across the U.S. and Canada. Transatlantic Scots is a multidisciplinary collection that studies the regional organization and varied expressions of the Scottish Heritage movement in the Canadian Maritimes, the Great Lakes, New England, and the American South. From divers. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Scots -- North America -- History.
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Scots. |
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North America. |
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History. |
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Scots -- North America -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
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Scots -- North America -- Ethnic identity.
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Ethnicity. |
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Regionalism -- North America.
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Regionalism. |
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Transnationalism.
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Transnationalism. |
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Scotland -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
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Scotland. |
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Emigration and immigration. |
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North America -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
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North America -- Ethnic relations.
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Ethnic relations. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Hunter, James, 1941-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ray, Celeste. Transatlantic Scots. Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, ©2005 9780817352400 |
| ISBN |
9780817384203 (electronic book) |
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0817384200 (electronic book) |
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0817314733 (alkaline paper) |
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9780817314736 (alkaline paper) |
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0817352406 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780817352400 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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