Immigration & Emigration
BIC code: JBLB
See also: World History
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£9.99Adventurers And Exiles: The Great Scottish Exodus - - Paperback
In the hundred years before World War I almost two million men, women and children left Scotland for a new life overseas. This is their story. -
Add to BasketAround The Rowan Tree - - Paperback
£6.99
Around the Rowan Tree starts with the return of the Gillies family to Scotland, to life on a farm. Margaret writes about life as a farmers wife with seven children, while Canada and the experience of migration lives on in her children. -
Add to BasketBe Well!: Jewish Immigrant Health And Welfare In Glasgow, 1860-1914 - - Paperback
£12.99
There were many health problems in Victorian Glasgow. Infectious diseases were common amid slum conditions and poverty. This book looks at the response of the Jewish community in Glasgow to its health problems. -
Add to BasketA Dance Called America: The Scottish Highlands, The United States And Canada - - Paperback
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Add to BasketDiaspora Criticism - - Paperback
£18.99
'Diaspora Criticism' takes the concept 'diaspora' as its object of inquiry and provides a framework for discussing displaced communities in a way that takes contemporary social, cultural and economic pressures into account. It also provides an overview of the trends in diaspora criticism. -
Add to BasketFar From The Rowan Tree - - Paperback
£6.99
In the 1950s many Scots and other peoples made the great leap into the unknown and emigrated to Canada. This is the account of Ronald and Margaret Gillies, their adventures and how they settled into life in the New World. -
Add to BasketFast Sailing And Copper-Bottomed: Aberdeen Sailing Ships And The Emigrant Scots They Carried To Canada, 1774-1855 - - Paperback
£15.50
Lucille Campney recounts the days when Aberdeen's 'fast sailing and copper-bottomed' ships carried emigrant Scots to Canada and reveals the processes at work as well as the people behind the scenes who provided the services. -
Add to BasketGlencoe And The Indians: A Real-Life Family Saga Which Spans Two Continents, Several Centuries And More Than Thirty Generations To Link Scotland's Clans With The Native Peoples Of The American West - - Paperback
£9.99
This is a real-life family saga which spans two continents, several centuries and more than 30 generations to link Scotland's clans with the native peoples of the American West. -
Add to BasketA Global Clan: Scottish Migrant Networks And Identities Since The Eighteenth Century - Hardback
£35.00
'A Global Clan' explores the impact of Scottish migration on New World development. With a new approach linking personal accounts to networks of kin and social groups, this book taps into the expanding academic debate on migration linking imperial history and European diaspora. -
Add to BasketIrish: The Remarkable Saga Of A Nation And A City - - Paperback
£7.99
No bigger story has occurred in Glasgow than the coming of the Irish. 'Irish' tells how Glasgow would not have become the powerhouse of the Industrial Revolution had it not been for the labours and skills of the tens of thousands who flooded in during and following Ireland's Great Famine.