Transatlantic Scots
By: edited by Celeste Ray ; foreword by James Hunter.
Contributors: Ray, R. Celeste.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
Subjects: Scots -- North America -- History.; Scots -- North America -- Social life and customs.; Scots -- North America -- Ethnic identity.; Regionalism -- North America.; Transnationalism.; Scotland -- Emigration and immigration -- History.; North America -- Emigration and immigration -- History.; North America -- Ethnic relations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Transatlantic Scots and ethnicity / Celeste Ray; title: Scottish immigration and ethnic organization in the United States / Celeste Ray; title: A brief history of organized Scottishness in Canada / Michael Vance; title: From the Quebec-Hebrideans to "les écossais-québécois" : tracing the evolution of a Scottish cultural identity in Canada's eastern townships / Margaret Bennett; title: Powerful pathos : the triumph of Scottishness in Nova Scotia / Michael Vance; title: You play it as you would sing it : Cape Breton, Scottishness, and the means of cultural production / Jonathan Dembling; title: The North American émigré, highland games, and social capital in international communities / Grant Jarvie; title: Troubling times in the Scottish-American relationship / Andrew Hook; title: Bravehearts and patriarchs : masculinity on the pedestal in southern Scottish heritage celebration / Celeste Ray; title: Finding Colonsay's emigrants and a "heritage of place" / John W. Sheets; title: Pilgrims to the far country : North American "roots-tourists" in the Scottish highlands and islands / Paul Basu; title: Tartan day / Edward J. Cowan; title: Transatlantic Scots, their interlocutors, and the Scottish discursive unconscious / Colin McArthur.