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- catalog contributor b3747878.
- catalog contributor b3747879.
- catalog coverage "North America Emigration and immigration History.".
- catalog coverage "Scotland Emigration and immigration History.".
- catalog created "c1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "c1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
- catalog description ""This book surveys emigration from Scotland to North America during the second half of the eighteenth century. Day-to-day survival forced men, women and children from their homes in a country that was experiencing momentous economic and cultural changes. During the seventeenth century governments and individuals started to formulate policies for deliberate colonization. The background of economic stress, political and religious harassment but intellectual ferment, led to the Age of Improvement. Improvements, though, were a mixed blessing, for they meant the upheaval of people from their ancestral lands to move to the burgeoning industrial towns, or across the seas in a crowded boat to a land with a strange climate and vast forests from which they had to wrest land and a living" -- Back cover.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-244) and index.".
- catalog extent "258 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Cargoes of despair and hope.".
- catalog identifier "0859763676 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Cargoes of despair and hope.".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "c1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Edinburgh : J. Donald Publishers,".
- catalog relation "Cargoes of despair and hope.".
- catalog spatial "North America Emigration and immigration History.".
- catalog spatial "North America".
- catalog spatial "Scotland Emigration and immigration History.".
- catalog subject "970.004/9163 20".
- catalog subject "E49.2.S3 A33 1993".
- catalog subject "Immigrants North America History.".
- catalog subject "Scots North America History.".
- catalog tableOfContents ""This book surveys emigration from Scotland to North America during the second half of the eighteenth century. Day-to-day survival forced men, women and children from their homes in a country that was experiencing momentous economic and cultural changes. During the seventeenth century governments and individuals started to formulate policies for deliberate colonization. The background of economic stress, political and religious harassment but intellectual ferment, led to the Age of Improvement. Improvements, though, were a mixed blessing, for they meant the upheaval of people from their ancestral lands to move to the burgeoning industrial towns, or across the seas in a crowded boat to a land with a strange climate and vast forests from which they had to wrest land and a living" -- Back cover.".
- catalog title "Cargoes of despair and hope : Scottish emigration to North America, 1603-1803 / Ian Adams and Meredyth Somerville.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".