A Social History of the Scotch-Irish by Carlton Jackson
Beginning with the origins of their population in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the author traces the Scotch-Irish development from Lowland Scotland to Northern Ireland to the American colonies. Arriving in the East, the Scotch-Irish were characterized by other colonists as being fiery tempered, stubborn, hard drinking, and very religious, and they quickly made lasting impressions. Though the Scotch-Irish were in the minority, they managed to impact history. Most notably, they introduced the appeals system and the checks and balances system.
Carlton Jackson is a professor of history at Western Kentucky University. He has held senior Fulbright lectureships in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, and during the 1989-90 academic year was the Fulbright Bicentennial Professor of American Studies at the University of Helsinki. He is the author and co-author of eleven books including Hattie: The Life of Hattie McDaniel.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781568331423 |
| ISBN 10 | 1568331428 |
| Title | A Social History of the Scotch-Irish |
| Author | Carlton Jackson |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Madison Books |
| Year published | 1999-10-12 |
| Number of pages | 222 |
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