Sojourners in the Sun: Scottish Migrants in Jamaica and the Chesapeake, 1740-1800 [Hardcover]

Alan Karras (Author)

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Publication Date: January 1993

By capturing the intentions, careers, and frustrations of Scottish migrants, Sojourners in the Sun illuminates an important and previously obscure aspect of migration history. Karras makes a significant contribution not only to Atlantic, Caribbean, and Chesapeake social history, but also to economic and Scottish history.

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Hardcover: 231 pages
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr; First Edition edition (January 1993)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 080142691X
ISBN-13: 978-0801426919
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,618,353 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Francis Grant, Charles Steuart, James Parker, New York, West Indies, Charles Gordon, Alexander Wilson, Alexander Johnston, John Grant, Archibald Grant, United States, James Robinson, Montego Bay, West Indian, Caledonian Mercury, John Stirling, Alexander Grant, Archibald Stirling, Richard Sheridan, Alexander Hamilton, Scotus Americanus, Thomas Ruddach, Colin Maclarty, Gordon of Cairness, Grant of Monymusk

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Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution by Bernard Bailyn on 4 pages
Colonial British America: Essays in the New History of the Early Modern Era by Jack P. Greene on page 176, page 179, and Back Matter
Second Abstract of British Historical Statistics (Department of Applied Economics Monographs) by B. R. Mitchell on page 48, page 173, and Back Matter
Theory of Moral Sentiments (Great Books in Philosophy) by Adam Smith on page 22, page 29, and Back Matter
The Loyalists in Revolutionary America, 1760-1781, (The Founding of the American Republic Series) by Robert McCluer Calhoon on page 195, page 206, and Back Matter

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Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World by Trevor Burnard in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Essays in the Economic History of the Atlantic World (Routledge Studies in International Economic and Social History) by John McCusker on page 200, and Back Matter
A Pepper-Pot of Cultures: Aspects of Creolization in the Caribbean (Matatu 27-28) by Gordon Collier on page 171, and page 187
Bibliography of Imperial, Colonial, and Commonwealth History since 1600 (The Royal Historical Society Bibliography: the History of Britain, Ireland, and the British Overseas) by Andrew Porter on page 85

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