Transatlantic Scots /
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...
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Introduction; 1. Transatlantic Scots and Ethnicity; 2. Scottish Immigration and Ethnic Organization in the United States; 3. A Brief History of Organized Scottishness in Canada; 4. From the Quebec-Hebrideans to "les cossais-Qubcois": Tracing the Evolution of a Scottish Cultural Identity in Canada's Eastern Townships; 5. Powerful Pathos: The Triumph of Scottishness in Nova Scotia; 6. You Play It as You Would Sing It: Cape Breton, Scottishness, and the Means of Cultural Production.
- 7. The North American migr, Highland Games, and Social Capital in International Communities8. Troubling Times in the Scottish-American Relationship; 9. Bravehearts and Patriarchs: Masculinity on the Pedestal in Southern Scottish Heritage Celebration; 10. Finding Colonsay's Emigrants and a "Heritage of Place"; 11. Pilgrims to the Far Country: North American "roots-tourists" in the Scottish Highlands and Islands; 12. Tartan Day in America; 13. Transatlantic Scots, Their Interlo.
