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The Scottish diaspora consists of Scottish people who emigrated from Scotland and their descendants. The diaspora is concentrated in countries such as the United States , Canada , Australia , England , New Zealand , Ireland and to a lesser extent Argentina , Chile , and Brazil .
His 1991 professorial inaugural lecture ‘Scotland and the British Empire’ [9] was well received and opened up new fields for him, including various aspects of work on the Scottish Diaspora. This led to his book The Scots in South Africa (with Nigel R. Dalziel) of 2007 (while associated with to the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish ...
The book documents the deep extent to which Scottish people were involved in, and profiting from, the Atlantic slave trade, with specific focus on Jamaica. [2] It highlights that Scotland undertook a leading role in slavery in the 18th and early 19th century. [ 2 ]
The Columbia Journalism Review described Schwarz as "the magazine's in-house intellectual." [5] A national correspondent for The Atlantic from 1995 to 2000, Schwarz wrote a series of essays and articles that argued for a reduced role United States in global politics. [6] [7] He also wrote several pieces on historical and literary subjects.
The book is the 2015 winner of the Saltire Society Scottish Research Book of the Year award. [14] In 2017, Bueltmann published the co-authored monograph The English Diaspora in North America: Migration, Ethnicity and Association, 1730s-1950s, the output of an AHRC funded grant. [15]
Journal of Southern History (1986): 547–548. Shepperson, George. “Writings in Scottish-American History: A Brief Survey.” William and Mary Quarterly 11#2 1954, pp. 164–178. online; Zumkhawala-Cook, Richard. "The Mark of Scottish America: Heritage Identity and the Tartan Monster." Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 14#1 (2005 ...
From a bestselling migration memoir to an acclaimed novel of suburbia, political poetry and essays and on and on, Salvadoran writers are having a big moment.
The Darien scheme is probably the best known of all Scotland's colonial endeavours, and the most disastrous. In 1695, an act was passed in the Parliament of Scotland establishing The Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies and was given royal assent by the Scottish representative of King William II of Scotland (and III of England ...