1572338326

9781572338326

1572337540 (hardcover : alk. paper)

9781572337541 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Project MUSE - UPCC 2011 Complete Supplement.

Project MUSE - UPCC 2011 History Supplement.

Introduction: From the north of Ireland to North America: the Scots-Irish and the migration experience / Warren R. Hofstra

Searching for a new world: the background and baggage of Scots-Irish immigrants / David W. Miller

Searching for land: the role of New Castle, Delaware, 1720s-1770s / Marianne S. Wokeck

Searching for order: Donegal Springs, Pennsylvania, 1720s-1730s

Richard K. MacMaster

Searching for community: Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1750s-1780s / Richard K. MacMaster

Searching for peace and prosperity: Opequon settlement, Virginia, 1730s-1760s / Warren R. Hofstra

Searching for status: Virginia's Irish tract, 1770s-1790s / Katharine L. Brown and Kenneth W. Keller

Searching for security: backcountry Carolina, 1760s-1780s / Michael Montgomery

Searching for "Irish" freedom-settling for "Scotch-Irish" respectability: southwestern Pennsylvania, 1780-1810 / Peter Gilmore and Kerby A. Miller

Searching for independence: revolutionary Kentucky, Irish American experience, and Scotch-Irish myth, 1770s-1790s / Patrick Griffin

Afterword: historic political moderation in the Ulster-to-America diaspora / Robert M. Calhoon.

Scots > Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) > History > 18th century.

Scots > Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) > History.

Scots-Irish > United States > History > 18th century.

Scots-Irish > United States > History.

Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) > Emigration and immigration > History > 18th century.

Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) > Emigration and immigration > History.

United States > Emigration and immigration > History > 18th century.

United States > Emigration and immigration > History.

Project Muse.