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The Scots in Australia, 1788-1938 /

The experience of immigration to Australia from Scotland is outlined here, from daily life and occupation, to interactions with the Indigenous inhabitants.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wilkie, Benjamin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge, Suffolk : The Boydell Press is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2017.
Colección:Scottish historical review monographs series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontcover
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Writing the History of the Scots in Australia
  • Identities and Empires
  • 1. From Scotland to Australia: Convicts, Free Settlers, and Encounters with Australia
  • Scottish Convicts
  • Free Settlers
  • Encountering the Australian Landscape
  • 2. Caledonia Australis: Imperial Commerce, Migrant Networks, and Australian Pastoralism
  • Scotland's Commercial Empire
  • Gender, Class, and Migrant Networks in the Western District
  • Workers, Mates, and Bushrangers
  • Remaking and Reimagining Australia
  • 3. Scottish Migrants and Indigenous Australians
  • First Contacts
  • Scots and the Dispossession of Indigenous Australians
  • Scottish Presbyterians and the Colonial Frontier
  • 4. Imagining Home: Scottish Culture in Australia
  • Imperial Scotland
  • Caledonian Culture
  • Scottishness in Stone
  • 5. Warriors of Empire: A Case Study of Popular Imperialism
  • Australian Nationalism and the Victorian Scottish Regiment
  • Cultural Maintenance and the Interwar Years
  • 6. The Empire Builders: Imperial Commerce and Migration between the Wars
  • 'Men, Money, and Markets'
  • Commerce and Trade between the Wars
  • Tourism, Migration, and the 'Right Kind' of Scots
  • 7. New Scots: Industry, Settlement, and Working-Class Migration
  • Settlement and Work in Australian Cities
  • Lairds of Suburbia
  • 8. At The Edge of Scotland's Diaspora: Diversity and Tension in the Twentieth Century
  • Cultural and Ethnic Diversity
  • Class and Political Tensions
  • Working-Class Culture
  • Conclusion: The Imperial Legacy
  • Bibliography
  • Primary Sources
  • Secondary Sources
  • Index.