The Scots in Australia /

Scots have been?invisible? ethnics but happen to be Australia?s third largest immigrant group. The Scots in Australia is a long overdue and comprehensive history of Scottish immigrants? including convicts and free settlers? and their descendants in Australia from 1788 to the present. Combining anecd...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Prentis, Malcolm D. (Malcolm David), 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Sydney : University of New South Wales Press, 2008.
Temas:
Scots > Australia > History.
Écossais > Australie > Histoire.
Emigration and immigration
Scots
Scotland > Emigration and immigration > History.
Australia > Emigration and immigration > History.
Écosse > Émigration et immigration > Histoire.
Australie > Émigration et immigration > Histoire.
Australia
Scotland
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Scots have been?invisible? ethnics but happen to be Australia?s third largest immigrant group. The Scots in Australia is a long overdue and comprehensive history of Scottish immigrants? including convicts and free settlers? and their descendants in Australia from 1788 to the present. Combining anecdote, biography and straightforward history, author Malcolm Prentis reevaluates commonly held assumptions and myths from both ends of the migration process. Malcolm Prentis shows that the Scots have had an influence in Australia disproportionate to their numbers. The Scots in Australia powerfully.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 334 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-324) and index.
ISBN:1921410213
9781921410215
9781742230658
1742230652

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