Adventurers and Exiles: The Great Scottish Exodus - Softcover

Harper, Marjory

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1861974523 ISBN 13: 9781861974525

Publisher: Profile Books Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

In the century before World War I, almost two million men, women, and children left Scotland for a new life overseas across the expanding English-speaking world. This book provides a comprehensive account of that Exodus.

About this title

About the Author:

Marjory Harper is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Aberdeen.

Review:

'Enjoyable and richly illustrated' - Niall Ferguson, Sunday Times 'A very brave book which debunks many of the myths on which Scottish martyrdom is based ... The research alone makes this book hugely impressive ... A very entertaining book and a sobering one' - Gerard DeGroot, Scotland on Sunday 'A serious and informative book, packed with detail ... drawing on a wide range of sources, and enlivened with apt quotations and anecdotes' - Allan Massie, Literary Review 'The Scots were among the world's great emigrant nations with a huge impact on the USA, Canada, Asia, Australasia and elsewhere, yet effective studies of the Scottish diaspora are still few and far between. So I welcome Marjory Harper's important and stimulating overview' - T. M. Devine, author of the best-selling The Scottish Nation; A History 1700 - 2000

About this edition

• Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1861974523
• ISBN 13: 9781861974525
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 422