The People with No Name by Patrick Griffin
More than 100,000 Ulster Presbyterians of Scottish origin migrated to the American colonies in the six decades prior to the American Revolution. This book uncovers the ways in which migrants from Ulster - and thousands like them - forged new identities and how they conceived the wider transatlantic community.
"This highly recommended monograph is based on broad and deep archival research on both sides of the ocean and is written in a clear, lively style that quotes abundantly from contemporary sources"--Stanley H. Palmer, History "A good analysis of one of the several disaffected and displaced groups that occupied the margins of the colonial world."--Choice "In part, Griffin's book is so successful because he understands that the historian of any diaspora has a dual responsibility: to the homeland and to the new land. Privileging either of these distorts the picture... Griffin's fine book will stand as a fundamental building block of Ulster Scots and of Scots-Irish historical study."--Donald Harman Akenson, American Historical Review "A welcome contribution to a field with a small but growing literature."--H. Tyler Blethen, William and Mary Quarterly "An excellent study of interest not only to students of Britain, Ireland, and colonial America, but also to those seeking to understand the eighteenth-century British Empire as a whole."--K. David Milobar, International History Review "There is much new in Griffin's study... His accomplishment derives in part from an ability to discuss identity formation in a jargon-free story at once engaging and profound."--Warren R. Hofstra, Journal of American History
Patrick Griffin is an Assistant Professor in the History Department of Ohio University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691074627 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691074623 |
| Title | The People with No Name |
| Author | Patrick Griffin |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 2001-10-14 |
| Number of pages | 264 |
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