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PublisherPalgrave Macmillan The Limited

ISBN-101137328193

ISBN-139781137328199

eBay Product ID (ePID)169917158

Product Key Features

Number of PagesXiii, 202 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameUlster Presbyterians and the Scots Irish Diaspora, 1750-1764

SubjectWorld / General, World / European, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Europe / Great Britain / General, Modern / General, United States / General

Publication Year2013

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science, History

AuthorBenjamin Bankhurst

SeriesChristianities in the Trans-Atlantic World Ser.

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight133.9 Oz

Item Length11.1 in

Item Width5.6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2014-002979

ReviewsWinner of the 2014 Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Books, in association with the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS), Winner of the 2014 Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Books, in association with the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS) "Ulster Presbyterians and the Scots Irish diaspora, 1750-1764remains a stimulating study, and one which will be of interest not only tohistorians of migration or Ulster Presbyterianism but also to scholars ofIreland and empire." (Jonathan Jeffrey Wright, Studia Hibernica, Vol. 41, 2014), Winner of the 2014 Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Books, in association with the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS) "Ulster Presbyterians and the Scots Irish diaspora, 1750-1764 remains a stimulating study, and one which will be of interest not only to historians of migration or Ulster Presbyterianism but also to scholars of Ireland and empire." (Jonathan Jeffrey Wright, Studia Hibernica, Vol. 41, 2014)

Dewey Edition23

Number of Volumes1 vol.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal327.7041609/033

Table Of ContentIntroduction: John Moore's Crossing, 1760 1. Atlantic Migration and North America in the Irish Presbyterian Imagination 2. The Press, Associational Culture and Popular Imperialism in Ulster, 1750-1764 3. He Never Wants for Suitable Instruments: The Seven Years War as a War of Religion 4. Sorrowful Spectators: Ulster Presbyterian Opinion and American Frontier Atrocity 5. An Infant Sister Church, in Great Distress, Amidst a Great Wilderness: American Presbyterian Fundraising in Ireland, 1752-1763 Postscript: John Moore's Return and Reflections on America, 1763

SynopsisThe migration of roughly 250,000 Irish Protestants to the British North American Colonies marked one of the largest transatlantic movements of Europeans during the eighteenth century. Traditionally historians have structured their examinations of the Scots Irish, as this group is known in the United States, within a narrative framework beginning in the province of Ulster and ending on the frontiers of North America. In so doing, they have paid little attention to how large-scale emigration transformed the culture and life strategies of the Irish communities that fed the exodus. Ulster Presbyterians and the Scots Irish Diaspora examines how news regarding the violent struggle to control the borderlands of British North America between 1750 and 1764 resonated among communities in Ireland with familial links to the colonies. Nowhere were these links more firmly established than in the Irish province of Ulster, a region that supplied the largest proportion of European migrants to the Appalachian backcountry during the colonial period. Bankhurst argues that war on the colonial frontier and the arrival of American fundraising drives in Ireland collapsed emotional and spatial distance and produced a sense of empathy among Ulster Presbyterians for their beleaguered kin across the ocean. This empathy was the foundation of a new imperial outlook in Ireland and led to greater popular enthusiasm for British expansion in North America., Bankhurst examines how news regarding the violent struggle to control the borderlands of British North America between 1740 and 1760 resonated among communities in Ireland with familial links to the colonies. This work considers how intense Irish press coverage and American fundraising drives in Ireland produced empathy among Ulster Presbyterians.

LC Classification NumberE171-183.9