Ulster Presbyterians and the Scots Irish diaspora, 1750-1764

Ulster Presbyterians and the Scots Irish diaspora, 1750-1764 / Benjamin Bankhurst.

The migration of roughly 250,000 Irish Protestants to the British North American Colonies marked one of the largest transatlantic movements of Europeans during the eighteenth century. Traditionally historians have structured their examinations of the Scots Irish, as this group is known in the United...

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Main Author: Bankhurst, Benjamin, 1981- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Series:Christianities in the trans-Atlantic world.
Subjects:
1700-1799
Scots-Irish > North America > History > 18th century.
Irish > North America > History > 18th century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > General.
Emigration and immigration
Diplomatic relations
Irish
Scots-Irish
Social conditions
Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) > Emigration and immigration > History > 18th century.
North America > Emigration and immigration > History > 18th century.
Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) > Social conditions > 18th century.
Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) > Foreign relations > North America.
North America > Foreign relations > Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)
Ireland > Ulster
North America
History
dissertations.
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: John Moore's crossing, 1760
  • Atlantic migration and North America in the Irish Presbyterian imagination
  • The press, associational culture and popular imperialism in Ulster, 1750-1764
  • He never wants for suitable instruments: the Seven Years War as a war of religion
  • Sorrowful spectators: Ulster Presbyterian opinion and American frontier atrocity
  • An infant sister church, in great distress, amidst a great wilderness: American Presbyterian fundraising in Ireland, 1752-1763
  • Postscript: John Moore's return and reflections on America, 1763.

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