Scotch-Irish
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A01=James G. Leyburn
Author_James G. Leyburn
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ethnicity
heritage
Highland Scots
Lowland Scots
migration to America
national identity
regionalism
Scotch-Irish
Scottish
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- ISBN 9780807842591
- Weight: 552g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 30 Aug 1989
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
The late James G. Leyburn was professor of sociology at Washington and Lee University.
