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Author : Charles Knowles Bolton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Scotch Irish Pioneers in Ulster and America written by Charles Knowles Bolton and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James G. Leyburn
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807842591
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (425 download)
Download or read book The Scotch-Irish written by James G. Leyburn and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 1989-08-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dispelling much of what he terms the 'mythology' of the Scotch-Irish, James Leyburn provides an absorbing account of their heritage. He discusses their life in Scotland, when the essentials of their character and culture were shaped; their removal to Northern Ireland and the action of their residence in that region upon their outlook on life; and their successive migrations to America, where they settled especially in the back-country of Pennsylvania, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia, and then after the Revolutionary War were in the van of pioneers to the west.
Author : Jim Webb
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0767922956
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)
Download or read book Born Fighting written by Jim Webb and published by Crown. This book was released on 2005-10-11 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his first work of nonfiction, bestselling novelist James Webb tells the epic story of the Scots-Irish, a people whose lives and worldview were dictated by resistance, conflict, and struggle, and who, in turn, profoundly influenced the social, political, and cultural landscape of America from its beginnings through the present day. More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of England’s Ulster Plantation in Northern Ireland. Between 250,000 and 400,000 Scots-Irish migrated to America in the eighteenth century, traveling in groups of families and bringing with them not only long experience as rebels and outcasts but also unparalleled skills as frontiersmen and guerrilla fighters. Their cultural identity reflected acute individualism, dislike of aristocracy and a military tradition, and, over time, the Scots-Irish defined the attitudes and values of the military, of working class America, and even of the peculiarly populist form of American democracy itself. Born Fighting is the first book to chronicle the full journey of this remarkable cultural group, and the profound, but unrecognized, role it has played in the shaping of America. Written with the storytelling verve that has earned his works such acclaim as “captivating . . . unforgettable” (the Wall Street Journal on Lost Soliders), Scots-Irishman James Webb, Vietnam combat veteran and former Naval Secretary, traces the history of his people, beginning nearly two thousand years ago at Hadrian’s Wall, when the nation of Scotland was formed north of the Wall through armed conflict in contrast to England’s formation to the south through commerce and trade. Webb recounts the Scots’ odyssey—their clashes with the English in Scotland and then in Ulster, their retreat from one war-ravaged land to another. Through engrossing chronicles of the challenges the Scots-Irish faced, Webb vividly portrays how they developed the qualities that helped settle the American frontier and define the American character. Born Fighting shows that the Scots-Irish were 40 percent of the Revolutionary War army; they included the pioneers Daniel Boone, Lewis and Clark, Davy Crockett, and Sam Houston; they were the writers Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain; and they have given America numerous great military leaders, including Stonewall Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, Audie Murphy, and George S. Patton, as well as most of the soldiers of the Confederacy (only 5 percent of whom owned slaves, and who fought against what they viewed as an invading army). It illustrates how the Scots-Irish redefined American politics, creating the populist movement and giving the country a dozen presidents, including Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. And it explores how the Scots-Irish culture of isolation, hard luck, stubbornness, and mistrust of the nation’s elite formed and still dominates blue-collar America, the military services, the Bible Belt, and country music. Both a distinguished work of cultural history and a human drama that speaks straight to the heart of contemporary America, Born Fighting reintroduces America to its most powerful, patriotic, and individualistic cultural group—one too often ignored or taken for granted.
Author : Henry Jones Ford
Publisher : Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Scotch-Irish in America written by Henry Jones Ford and published by Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1915 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scotch-Irish in America tells the story of the Ulster Plantation and of the influences that formed the character of the Scotch-Irish people. The author commences with a detailed discussion of the events leading to the Scottish migration to Ulster in the seventeenth century, followed by an examination of the causes of the secondary exodus of these same "Scotch-Irish" to North America before the end of the century. Entire chapters are then devoted to the Scotch-Irish settlement in New England, New York, the Jerseys, Pennsylvania, and along the colonial frontier. Special chapters take up the role of the Scotch-Irish in the development of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S., the Scotch-Irish in the American Revolution, and the role of the Scotch-Irish in the spread of popular education in America.
Author : Judith Ridner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781932304305
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (43 download)
Download or read book A Varied People written by Judith Ridner and published by . This book was released on 2018-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Knowles Bolton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Scotch Irish Pioneers in Ulster and America written by Charles Knowles Bolton and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally published in 1910, Scotch Irish Pioneers offers a systematic treatment of the migration of the Scotch and English from the north of Ireland to the New World in the early eighteenth century. Bolton details the conditions in both Ireland and New England prior to the group's emigration; the main players and ships involved in the movement; and ultimately where in America the Scotch Irish settled after arriving. Appendixes include lists of ships from Ireland arriving in New England between 1714 and 1720; members of the Charitable Irish Society in Boston; existing vital records of towns in Ulster begun before 1755; home towns of Ulster families; and more" -- Back cover.
Author : Samuel Swett Green
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Scotch-Irish in America written by Samuel Swett Green and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ray Raphael
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307455998
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Revolutionary Founders written by Ray Raphael and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In twenty-two original essays, leading historians reveal the radical impulses at the founding of the American Republic. Here is a fresh, new reading of the American Revolution that gives voice and recognition to a generation of radical thinkers and doers whose revolutionary ideals outstripped those of the “Founding Fathers.” While the Founding Fathers advocated a break from Britain and espoused ideals of republican government, none proposed significant changes to the fabric of colonial society. Yet during this “revolutionary” period some people did believe that “liberty” meant “liberty for all” and that “equality” should be applied to political, economic, and religious spheres. Here are the stories of individuals and groups who exemplified the radical ideals of the American Revolution more in keeping with our own values today. This volume helps us to understand the social conflicts unleashed by the struggle for independence, the Revolution’s achievements, and the unfinished agenda it left to future generations to confront.
Author : Billy Kennedy
Publisher : Emerald House Group Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781898787464
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (874 download)
Download or read book The Scots-Irish in the Hills of Tennessee written by Billy Kennedy and published by Emerald House Group Incorporated. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Absorbing stories of a race of people who created the civilization in the American wilderness and helped lay the solid foundations for the greatest nation on earth. The Scots-Irish Presbyterians settled in the American frontier during with the 18th century were a unique breed of people with an independent spirit which boldly challenged the arbitrary powers of monarchs and established the church.
Author : Lindsey Flewelling
Publisher : Reappraisals in Irish History
ISBN 13 : 1786940450
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (869 download)
Download or read book Two Irelands Beyond the Sea written by Lindsey Flewelling and published by Reappraisals in Irish History. This book was released on 2018 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovers the transnational movement by Ireland's unionists as they worked to maintain the Union during the Home Rule era. The book explores the political, social, religious, and Scotch-Irish ethnic connections between Irish unionists and the United States as unionists appealed to Americans for support and reacted to Irish nationalism.
Author : Rory Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Peribo Pty, Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book God's Frontiersmen written by Rory Fitzpatrick and published by Peribo Pty, Limited. This book was released on 1989 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ulster Scots came to the north of Ireland in the 17th century and today constitute the dominant strain among Ulster Protestants. They brought with them their Calvanist beliefs, a stern work ethic and a fiercely independent spirit. Religious discrimination led thousands of them to cross the Atlantic, where many became famous names in American history, including Davy Crockett, Kit Carson, Stonewall Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, the Gettys and Mellons.
Author : Kerby A. Miller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195348224
Total Pages : 820 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (482 download)
Download or read book Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan written by Kerby A. Miller and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-27 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan is a monumental and pathbreaking study of early Irish Protestant and Catholic migration to America. Through exhaustive research and sensitive analyses of the letters, memoirs, and other writings, the authors describe the variety and vitality of early Irish immigrant experiences, ranging from those of frontier farmers and seaport workers to revolutionaries and loyalists. Largely through the migrants own words, it brings to life the networks, work, and experiences of these immigrants who shaped the formative stages of American society and its Irish communities. The authors explore why Irishmen and women left home and how they adapted to colonial and revolutionary America, in the process creating modern Irish and Irish-American identities on the two sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan was the winner of the James S. Donnelly, Sr., Prize for Books on History and Social Sciences, American Council on Irish Studies.
Author : Lucille H. Campey
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459740858
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book Ontario and Quebec’s Irish Pioneers written by Lucille H. Campey and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2018-09-08 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking on the myth that Irish settlers in Canada were a wave of famine victims, Lucille Campey reveals the pioneering achievements of the Irish who began populating — and thriving in — Ontario and Quebec a century before the famine of 1840. The second volume of the Irish in Canada series brings an informative and lively account of this great saga.
Author : Bolivar Christian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Scotch-Irish Settlers in the Valley of Virginia written by Bolivar Christian and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : MD Andrew T Taylor Jr
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781532791833
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (918 download)
Download or read book The Taylors, the Scots-Irish and the Settling of America written by MD Andrew T Taylor Jr and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-28 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year was approximately 1740 when Isaac Taylor and his wife, Isabella, stood on the deck of their small vessel, looking for the last time on Northern Ireland as it slipped slowly into the mist and ocean haze. They had committed their lives, their hopes, and the future of their 5 children to the wilderness of the New World. The Taylors, the Scots-Irish and the Settling of America begins with the historical background for Isaac's and Isabella's momentous decision. Opening with William the Conqueror's invasion of England and the hazy origins of the Taylors, the first chapter culminates in the succession of English monarchs, repeated wars, crop failures and religious persecutions that led Isaac and Isabella along with so many of their fellow Scots-Irish to abandon their native lands in Ulster and set sail for America. Most of the ships transporting Scots-Irish emigrants to the colonies sailed up the Delaware River to dock at Philadelphia. Looking for land, these new arrivals travelled the trails to the interior and fanned out along the frontier into Pennsylvania, Virginia and the Carolinas, pioneering the routes that subsequent waves of settlers were soon to follow. Isaac and Isabella followed the trail known as the Indian Road. Little more than a blazed trail, the Indian Road led west from Philadelphia to York where it crossed the Potomac and turned south into the heavily forested wilderness of the Shenandoah Valley. They purchased land in Virginia, cleared the forest, built a cabin, joined with scattered settlers to form a militia for self-defense and became charter members of the the Timber Ridge Presbyterian Church. Danger was a constant companion on the frontier and the Presbyterian religion that the settlers brought with them from Scotland and Ulster served as a bulwark against the uncertainties of life. One of the greatest threats facing isolated settlers was the ever present possibility of Indian attacks; close friends perished but Isaac and his family survived these skirmishes and the ensuing frontier conflict known in America as the French and Indian War. Their descendants surged westward across the Appalachians, fought the British in the Battle of King's Mountain, helped establish the short lived State of Franklin, and marched in 1814 with Andrew Jackson to New Orleans. Subsequent generations continued westward, settling Central and West Tennessee and subsequent generations also faced the bitter, bloody, and divisive turmoil of the Civil War. The history of the Taylors follows a line of male descent, and is amplified by vignettes of related branches of the family to provide a broader perspective into life on the frontier, the drive for independence, westward migration across the Appalachians, Tennessee politics and the Civil War. Vignettes are enhanced with quotes, newspaper articles, wills, and letters. The final chapter relates the childhood, early political life and World War II recollections of Judge Andrew T. Taylor, the author's father. These recollections include vignettes of his family, adolescence, early political life and his deployment in World War II to join the British 8th Army fighting Rommel in North Africa. Pioneers, farmers, freethinkers, land speculators, preachers, iconoclasts, soldiers, politicians, lawyers, judges and physicians, the Taylors represent only a single family but their stories encapsulate the stories of thousands and provide a window into the lives and generations of tens of thousands of Scots-Irish who emigrated from Northern Ireland to America between 1717 and 1770. Such stories bring the past into focus and connect us to our historical and cultural roots; in the process, these stories serve as a bridge to future generations and, for some, provide an anchor for the present. The color version of the book includes larger maps, color images and is printed on higher quality paper than the non-color version
Author : T. G. Fraser
Publisher : University Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 9780817311353
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Ulster and North America written by T. G. Fraser and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of thought-provoking essays addresses the complex issues of Ulster Scots history and ethnic identity by viewing them from a transatlantic and comparative perspective. The 11 essays in this volume, originally presented at meetings of the Ulster-American Heritage Symposium by scholars from Scotland, Ireland, Canada, and the United States, explore the nature of Scotch-Irish culture by examining values, traditions, demographics, and language. The essays also investigate the process of migration, which transmitted that culture to the New World, and the subsequent assimilation of Celtic ways into American culture. The themes presented are wide-ranging and complex. First is the dynamic nature of Ulster society in the 17th and 18th centuries and the rapid changes occurring there, especially those affecting Presbyterianism and community cohesiveness. Also examined is the experience of migration, asking such questions as who migrated and when, what their expectations were, and how closely colonial reality matched those expectations. A third theme is the development of economic strategies and community-building both in Ulster and North America, making important contributions to the "new rural history" and explaining the success of the Scotch-Irish on the American frontier. Finally, the volume addresses ethnic identity and cultural diffusion, advancing the ongoing debate initiated by Forrest McDonald and Grady McWhiney and elaborated on by David Hackett Fischer. Ulster and North America illustrates the value of transatlantic dialog and of comparative studies for the understanding of ethnicity and migration history.
Author : Claude Andrew Clegg III
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 080789558X
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Price of Liberty written by Claude Andrew Clegg III and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-09-11 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In nineteenth-century America, the belief that blacks and whites could not live in social harmony and political equality in the same country led to a movement to relocate African Americans to Liberia, a West African colony established by the United States government and the American Colonization Society in 1822. In The Price of Liberty, Claude Clegg accounts for 2,030 North Carolina blacks who left the state and took up residence in Liberia between 1825 and 1893. By examining both the American and African sides of this experience, Clegg produces a textured account of an important chapter in the historical evolution of the Atlantic world. For almost a century, Liberian emigration connected African Americans to the broader cultures, commerce, communication networks, and epidemiological patterns of the Afro-Atlantic region. But for many individuals, dreams of a Pan-African utopia in Liberia were tempered by complicated relationships with the Africans, whom they dispossessed of land. Liberia soon became a politically unstable mix of newcomers, indigenous peoples, and "recaptured" Africans from westbound slave ships. Ultimately, Clegg argues, in the process of forging the world's second black-ruled republic, the emigrants constructed a settler society marred by many of the same exclusionary, oppressive characteristics common to modern colonial regimes.
