| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 334 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Homeland and farewell; Doing time; Arriving; Settling the land; Doing business; Political life; Defending the country; Educating and healing; Kirk and people; Celebrating Caledonian culture; Influencing Australian culture; Popular culture; Playing sport; The assimilated legacy; Notes; index |
| Summary |
Scots have been?invisible? ethnics but happen to be Australia?s third largest immigrant group. The Scots in Australia is a long overdue and comprehensive history of Scottish immigrants? including convicts and free settlers? and their descendants in Australia from 1788 to the present. Combining anecdote, biography and straightforward history, author Malcolm Prentis reevaluates commonly held assumptions and myths from both ends of the migration process. Malcolm Prentis shows that the Scots have had an influence in Australia disproportionate to their numbers. The Scots in Australia powerfully |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-324) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Scots -- Australia -- History
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Emigration and immigration
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Scots
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| SUBJECT |
Scotland -- Emigration and immigration -- History
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Australia -- Emigration and immigration -- History
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| Subject |
Australia
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Scotland
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1921410213 |
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9781921410215 |
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9781742230658 |
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1742230652 |
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