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Book The Highlanders in America

Download or read book The Highlanders in America written by John Patterson MacLean and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America

Download or read book An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America written by J. P Maclean and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-14 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by J. P Maclean

Book White People  Indians  and Highlanders

Download or read book White People Indians and Highlanders written by Colin G. Calloway and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-03 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In nineteenth century paintings, the proud Indian warrior and the Scottish Highland chief appear in similar ways--colorful and wild, righteous and warlike, the last of their kind. Earlier accounts depict both as barbarians, lacking in culture and in need of civilization. By the nineteenth century, intermarriage and cultural contact between the two--described during the Seven Years' War as cousins--was such that Cree, Mohawk, Cherokee, and Salish were often spoken with Gaelic accents. In this imaginative work of imperial and tribal history, Colin Calloway examines why these two seemingly wildly disparate groups appear to have so much in common. Both Highland clans and Native American societies underwent parallel experiences on the peripheries of Britain's empire, and often encountered one another on the frontier. Indeed, Highlanders and American Indians fought, traded, and lived together. Both groups were treated as tribal peoples--remnants of a barbaric past--and eventually forced from their ancestral lands as their traditional food sources--cattle in the Highlands and bison on the Great Plains--were decimated to make way for livestock farming. In a familiar pattern, the cultures that conquered them would later romanticize the very ways of life they had destroyed. White People, Indians, and Highlanders illustrates how these groups alternately resisted and accommodated the cultural and economic assault of colonialism, before their eventual dispossession during the Highland Clearances and Indian Removals. What emerges is a finely-drawn portrait of how indigenous peoples with their own rich identities experienced cultural change, economic transformation, and demographic dislocation amidst the growing power of the British and American empires.

Book An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America

Download or read book An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America written by J. P Maclean and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by J. P Maclean

Book The Highland Scots of North Carolina  1732 1776

Download or read book The Highland Scots of North Carolina 1732 1776 written by Duane Meyer and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-03-30 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meyer addresses himself principally to two questions. Why did many thousands of Scottish Highlanders emigrate to America in the eighteenth century, and why did the majority of them rally to the defense of the Crown. . . . Offers the most complete and intelligent analysis of them that has so far appeared.--William and Mary Quarterly Using a variety of original sources -- official papers, travel documents, diaries, and newspapers -- Duane Meyer presents an impressively complete reconstruction of the settlement of the Highlanders in North Carolina. He examines their motives for migration, their life in America, and their curious political allegiance to George III.

Book Highlanders in America

    Book Details:
  • Author : J. P. MacLean,
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2017-09-26
  • ISBN : 9781977680013
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book Highlanders in America written by J. P. MacLean, and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An attempt is here made to present a field that has not been preoccupied. The student of American history has noticed allusions to certain Scotch Highland settlements prior to the Revolution, without any attempt at either an account or origin of the same. In a measure the publication of certain state papers and colonial records, as well as an occasional memoir by an historical society have revived what had been overlooked. These settlements form a very important and interesting place in the early history of our country. While they may not have occupied a very prominent or pronounced position, yet their exertions in subduing the wilderness, their activity in the Revolution, and the wide influence exercised by the descendants of these hardy pioneers, should, long since, have brought their history and achievements into notice. The settlement in North Carolina, embracing a wide extent of territory, and the people numbered by the thousands, should, ere this, have found a competent exponent. But it exists more as a tradition than an actual colony. The Highlanders in Georgia more than acted their part against Spanish encroachments, yet survived all the vicissitudes of their exposed position. The stay of the Highlanders on the Mohawk was very brief, yet their flight into Canada and final settlement at Glengarry forms a very strange episode in the history of New York. The heartless treatment of the colony of Lachlan Campbell by the governor of the province of New York, and their long delayed recompense stands without a parallel, and is so strange and fanciful, that long since it should have excited the poet or novelist. The settlements in Nova Scotia and Prince Edwards Island, although scarcely commenced at the breaking out of the Revolution, are more important in later events than those chronicled in this volume. The chapters on the Highlands, the Scotch-Irish, and the Darien scheme, have sufficient connection to warrant their insertion. It is a noticeable fact that notwithstanding the valuable services rendered by the Highland regiments in the French and Indian war, but little account has been taken by writers, except in Scotland, although General David Stewart of Garth, as early as 1822, clearly paved the way. Unfortunately, his works, as well as those who have followed him, are comparatively unknown on this side the Atlantic. I was led to the searching out of this phase of our history, not only by the occasional allusions, but specially from reading works devoted to other nationalities engaged in the Revolution. Their achievements were fully set forth and their praises sung. Why should not the oppressed Gael, who sought the forests of the New World, struggled in the wilderness, and battled against foes, also be placed in his true light? If properly known, the artist would have a subject for his pencil, the poet a picture for his praises, and the novelist a strong background for his romance.

Book An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America Prior to the Peace of 1783

Download or read book An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America Prior to the Peace of 1783 written by John Patterson MacLean and published by Cleveland : Helman-Taylor. This book was released on 1900 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Our Southern Highlanders

Download or read book Our Southern Highlanders written by Horace Kephart and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America

Download or read book An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America written by MacLean J P (John Patterson) and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Book Our Southern Highlanders

    Book Details:
  • Author : Horace Kephart
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2020-07-31
  • ISBN : 3752377704
  • Pages : 210 pages

Download or read book Our Southern Highlanders written by Horace Kephart and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Our Southern Highlanders by Horace Kephart

Book Scottish Highlanders in Colonial Georgia  The Recruitment  Emigration  and Settlement at Darien  1735 1748

Download or read book Scottish Highlanders in Colonial Georgia The Recruitment Emigration and Settlement at Darien 1735 1748 written by Anthony W. Parker and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1735 and 1748 hundreds of young men and their families emigrated from the Scottish Highlands to the Georgia coast to settle and protect the new British colony. These men were recruited by the trustees of the colony and military governor James Oglethorpe, who wanted settlers who were accustomed to hardship, militant in nature, and willing to become frontier farmer-soldiers. In this respect, the Highlanders fit the bill perfectly through training and tradition. Recruiting and settling the Scottish Highlanders as the first line of defense on the southern frontier in Georgia was an important decision on the part of the trustees and crucial for the survival of the colony, but this portion of Georgia's history has been sadly neglected until now. By focusing on the Scots themselves, Anthony W. Parker explains what factors motivated the Highlanders to leave their native glens of Scotland for the pine barrens of Georgia and attempts to account for the reasons their cultural distinctiveness and "old world" experience aptly prepared them to play a vital role in the survival of Georgia in this early and precarious moment in its history.

Book An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America Prior to the Peace of 1783

Download or read book An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America Prior to the Peace of 1783 written by J. P. MacLean and published by Heritage Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed tome opens with a brief history of the Highlanders in Scotland, followed by an account of Highlanders in the Colonies. Other topics include settlement in NC, and GA, Captain Campbell's NY Colony, settlement on the Mohawk, Prince Edward Island and Pictou (Nove Scotia), Highlanders in the French and Indian War and on both sides of the Revolution, and distinguished Highlanders in America. M1742HB - $35.00

Book Scottish Soldiers in Colonial America

Download or read book Scottish Soldiers in Colonial America written by David Dobson and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book under consideration here marks the second in a series on Scottish colonial soldiers compiled by emigration authority David Dobson. (The first volume was published as two parts in one.) Working from manuscripts in the Acts of the Privy Council and the Calendar of British State Papers and published sources such as the Aberdeen Journal, the Edinburgh Advertiser, and the Georgia Gazette, the author has uncovered information on an additional 750 Scottish colonial solders not found in his earlier book. One such soldier was "John Wright, born in High Calton, Edinburgh, during 1728, an army sergeant who fought in the French and Indian War and in the American War of Independence, witnessed to death of Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham, died in Joppa, Edinburgh, in 1838, father of a Roman Catholic priest in Montreal."

Book An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America Prior to the Peace of 1783  Together with Notices of Highland Regiments and Biographical Sketches

Download or read book An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America Prior to the Peace of 1783 Together with Notices of Highland Regiments and Biographical Sketches written by J P 1848-1939 MacLean and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-08 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.