Death in the Diaspora
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-7378-1 (ISBN)
As British and Irish migrants sought new lives in the Caribbean, Asia, North America and Australasia, they left a trail of physical remains where settlement occurred. Between the 17th and 20th centuries, gravestones and elaborate epitaphs documented identity and attachment to their old and new worlds. This book expands upon earlier examination of cultural imperialism to reveal how individuals, kinship groups and occupational connections identified with place and space over time.
With analyses based on gravestones and memorial markers in the UK and Ireland, Australasia, Asia, Africa and the Americas, the contributors explore how this evidence can inform 21st-century ideas about the attachments that British and Irish migrants had to ‘home’ – in both life and death.
Nicholas J. Evans is Lecturer in Diaspora History at the University of Hull. Angela McCarthy is Professor of Scottish and Irish History at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She is the editor of A Global Clan (2006) and author of Personal Narratives of Irish and Scottish Migration, 1921-65 (2007) and Scottishness and Irishness in New Zealand since 1840 (2011).
1.Introduction: Death in the diaspora: British and Irish gravestones Nicholas J. Evans and Angela McCarthy2. Forgetting and remembering: Ulster Scots memorials in Ulster, North America and Australia Harold Mytum3. Imposing identity: Death markers to ‘English’ people in Barbados, 1627-1838 Nicholas J. Evans4. Looking for thistles in stone gardens: The cemeteries of Nova Scotia’s Scottish immigrantsLaurie Stanley-Blackwell and Michael Linkletter5. Scottish headstones in Ceylon in comparative perspective Angela McCarthy6. Irish memorialisation in South Australia, 1850-1899 Janine McEgan7. Memorialising the diasporic Cornish Philip Payton8. Documents in stone: Records of lives and deaths of Scots abroad and in Scotland John M. MacKenzie9. Conclusion Angela McCarthy and Nicholas J. Evans
| Erscheinungsdatum | 12.10.2020 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies in British and Irish Migration |
| Zusatzinfo | 43 black and white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 490 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-7378-4 / 1474473784 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-7378-1 / 9781474473781 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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