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Coin, Kirk, Class and Kin - Emigration, Social Change and Identity in Southern Scotland (Paperback, New edition)
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Coin, Kirk, Class and Kin - Emigration, Social Change and Identity in Southern Scotland (Paperback, New edition)
Series: British Identities Since 1707, 3
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There are many detailed accounts of nineteenth-century emigrants,
of their journeys and settlements abroad - but what of those they
left behind? This book delves into the heart of Georgian Britain to
explore the role that the men and women of the Scottish Borders
played in the mass emigration of the early nineteenth century.
Although most never departed themselves, their perceptions of
wealth, poverty, morality and community shaped the flow of
emigrants from the rural south to the wide and expanding British
Empire, as well as its North American rival, the United States.
Scouring the records of grand estates, humble Kirks, flamboyant
newspapers and family correspondences, the author returns the
Scottish Borders to the centre of Scotland's agricultural,
industrial and demographic revolutions. Standing on the sharp edge
of rural transformation, the Borders played both archetype and
exception, pioneering the way from a regional past to an imperial
future.
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