Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: From the north of Ireland to North America: the Scots-Irish and the migration experience / Warren R. Hofstra
  • Searching for a new world: the background and baggage of Scots-Irish immigrants / David W. Miller
  • Searching for land: the role of New Castle, Delaware, 1720s-1770s / Marianne S. Wokeck
  • Searching for order: Donegal Springs, Pennsylvania, 1720s-1730s
  • Richard K. MacMaster
  • Searching for community: Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1750s-1780s / Richard K. MacMaster
  • Searching for peace and prosperity: Opequon settlement, Virginia, 1730s-1760s / Warren R. Hofstra
  • Searching for status: Virginia's Irish tract, 1770s-1790s / Katharine L. Brown and Kenneth W. Keller
  • Searching for security: backcountry Carolina, 1760s-1780s / Michael Montgomery
  • Searching for "Irish" freedom-settling for "Scotch-Irish" respectability: southwestern Pennsylvania, 1780-1810 / Peter Gilmore and Kerby A. Miller
  • Searching for independence: revolutionary Kentucky, Irish American experience, and Scotch-Irish myth, 1770s-1790s / Patrick Griffin
  • Afterword: historic political moderation in the Ulster-to-America diaspora / Robert M. Calhoon.