Death in the diaspora : British and Irish gravestones /

Pioneering comparative study of how and why migrants from Scotland, Ireland, England and Wales displayed attachment to home on headstones and memorial markers erected across the British World between the 17th and 20th centuries.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Evans, Nicholas J. (Editor), McCarthy, Angela, 1971- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]
Series:Studies in British and Irish migration.
Subjects:
British > Funeral customs and rites.
Irish > Funeral customs and rites.
British > Foreign countries > Social conditions.
Irish > Foreign countries > Social conditions.
Sepulchral monuments > Great Britain > History.
Sepulchral monuments > Ireland > History.
Sepulchral monuments > Commonwealth countries > History.
Burial > Great Britain > History.
Burial > Ireland > History.
Burial > Commonwealth countries > History.
Britanniques > Rites et cérémonies funéraires.
Irlandais > Rites et cérémonies funéraires.
Britanniques > Pays étrangers > Conditions sociales.
Sépulture > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Sépulture > Irlande > Histoire.
Sépulture > Pays du Commonwealth > Histoire.
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
Burial.
Sepulchral monuments.
Commonwealth countries.
Great Britain.
Ireland.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Death in the Diaspora
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • The Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Series Editors' Introduction
  • 1 Introduction: Death in the Diaspora: British and Irish Gravestones
  • 2 Forgetting and Remembering: Scots Ulster and Ulster Scots Memorials in Eighteenth-Century Ulster, Pennsylvania and Nineteenth-century New South Wales
  • 3 Imposing Identity: Death Markers to 'English' People in Barbados 1627-1838
  • 4 Looking for Thistles in Stone Gardens: The Cemeteries of Nova Scotia's Scottish Immigrants
  • 5 Scottish Gravestones in Ceylon in Comparative Perspective
  • 6 Irish Memorialisation in South Australia, 1850-99
  • 7 Memorialising the Diasporic Cornish
  • 8 Documents in Stone: Records of Lives and Deaths of Scots Abroad and in Scotland
  • 9 Conclusion
  • Index

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