The Scots in Australia, 1788-1938. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Benjamin Wilkie, .
• Authors: Wilkie, Benjamin
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Woodbridge, Suffolk : The Boydell Press is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 994.0049163; Scots -- Australia -- History -- 19th century; Scots -- Australia -- History -- 20th century; HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand; Emigration and immigration; Scots; Scotland -- Emigration and immigration -- History; Australia -- Emigration and immigration -- History; Australia; Scotland; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781787441613
• Related ISBNs: 178744161X; 9781783272563
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 2, 2018).
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