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Born Fighting - How the Scots-Irish Shaped America (Paperback)
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Born Fighting - How the Scots-Irish Shaped America (Paperback)
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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. When hundreds of thousands of Scots-Irish migrated to
America in the eighteenth century, they brought 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 epic journey of
this remarkable ethnic group and the profound but unrecognised role
it has played in shaping the social, political and cultural
landscape of America from its beginnings through to the present
day.
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