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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- General Maps -- Introduction Edward J Cowan -- 1. Identity Edward J Cowan -- 2. Population Growth The Development of Towns and Villages in Galloway, 1755-1841 Lorna J Philip -- 3. Community Development in Kirkcudbright David F Devereux -- 4. Transport and Communications John Burnett -- 5. The Smuggling Trade Frances Wilkins -- 6. Metal Miners and Mining Communities John Pickin -- 7. The Farming Community John Burnett -- 8. Food, Drink and Diet John Burnett -- 9. Music, Song and Dance Josephine L Miller -- 10. Festivity and Celebration John Burnett -- 11. Folklore Lizanne Henderson -- 12. The Measure of Migration Edward J Cowan -- 13. The Emigrant Experience Edward J Cowan -- Index.

This book examines the power of the past upon the present. It shows how generations of Scots have exploited and reshaped BG to meet the needs of a series of presents, from the conquest of the Picts to the refounding of Parliament.

Examines the impact of the Scottish legacy on North American cultures and heritage. During the past four decades, growing interest in North Americans' cultural and ancestral ties to Scotland has produced hundreds of new Scottish clan and heritage societies. Well over 300 Scottish Highland games and gatherings annually take place across the U.S. and Canada. Transatlantic Scots is a multidisciplinary collection that studies the regional organization and varied expressions of the Scottish Heritage movement in the Canadian Maritimes, the Great Lakes, New England, and the American South. From diverse perspectives, authorities in their fields consider the modeling of a Scottish identity that distances heritage celebrants from prevalent visions of whiteness. Considering both hyphenated Scots who celebrate centuries-old transmission of Scottish traditions and those for whom claiming or re-claiming a Scottish identity is recent and voluntary, this book also examines how diaspora themes and Highland imagery repeatedly surface in regional public celebrations and how traditions are continually reinvented through the accumulation of myths. The underlying theoretical message is that ethnicity and heritage survive because of the flexibility of history and tradition. This work is a lasting contribution to the study of ethnicity and identity, the renegotiation of history and cultural memory into heritage, and the public performance and creation of tradition.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction: The Scottish Diaspora -- 2. Scottish Emigration and the Creation of the Diaspora -- 3. The Scottish Diaspora and the Empire -- 4. Scots by Association: Clubs and Societies in the Scottish Diaspora -- 5. Doing Business with the Scottish Diaspora -- 6. Scottish Politics and the Diaspora -- 7. Invisible and Inaudible? England's Scottish Diaspora and the Politics of the Union -- 8. Scottish Diasporic Identity in Europe -- 9. The Gaelic Diaspora in North America -- 10. Ancestral 'Scottishness' and Heritage Tourism -- 11. Mass Market Romance Fiction and the Representation of Scotland in the United States -- 12. Who's Depicting Who? Media Influences and the Scottish Diaspora -- 13. Sport and the Scottish Diaspora -- 14. Conclusions: The Nature and State of the Contemporary Scottish Diaspora -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index