| Description |
xiii, 201 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. From Scotland to Australia: Convicts, Free Settlers, and Encounters with Australia -- Scottish Convicts -- Free Settlers -- Encountering the Australian Landscape -- 2. Caledonia Australis: Imperial Commerce, Migrant Networks, and Australian Pastoralism -- Scotland's Commercial Empire -- Gender, Class, and Migrant Networks in the Western District -- Workers, Mates, and Bushrangers -- Remaking and Reimagining Australia -- 3. Scottish Migrants and Indigenous Australians -- First Contacts -- Scots and the Dispossession of Indigenous Australians -- Scottish Presbyterians and the Colonial Frontier -- 4. Imagining Home: Scottish Culture in Australia -- Imperial Scotland -- Caledonian Culture -- Scottishness in Stone -- 5. Warriors of Empire: A Case Study of Popular Imperialism -- Australian Nationalism and the Victorian Scottish Regiment -- Cultural Maintenance and the Interwar Years -- 6. The Empire Builders: Imperial Commerce and Migration between the Wars -- 'Men, Money, and Markets' -- Commerce and Trade between the Wars -- Tourism, Migration, and the 'Right Kind' of Scots -- 7. New Scots: Industry, Settlement, and Working-Class Migration -- Settlement and Work in Australian Cities -- Lairds of Suburbia -- 8. At The Edge of Scotland's Diaspora: Diversity and Tension in the Twentieth Century -- Cultural and Ethnic Diversity -- Class and Political Tensions -- Working-Class Culture -- Conclusion: The Imperial Legacy -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources |
| Summary |
Despite their significant presence, Scots have often been invisible in histories of Australian migration. This book illuminates the many experiences of the Scots in Australia, from the first colonists in the late-eighteenth century until the hopeful arrivals of the interwar years. It explores how and why they migrated to Australia, and their lives as convicts, colonists, farmers, families, workers, and weavers of culture and identity. It also investigates their encounters with the Australian continent, whether in its cities or on the land, and their relationship with its first peoples; and their connections to one another and with their own collective identities, looking at diversity and tension within the Scottish diaspora in Australia. It is also a book about the challenges of finding a place for oneself in a new land, and the difficulties of creating a sense of belonging in a settler colonial society |
| Subject |
Scots -- Australia -- History.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Emigration and immigration -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114312 -- 19th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012475
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Scotland http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79123936 -- Emigration and immigration http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005907 -- History -- 19th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006167
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Australia -- Ethnic relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007005690 -- History -- 19th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006167
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| ISBN |
9781783272563 |
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1783272562 |
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