The People with No Name: Ireland's Ulster Scots, America's Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British Atlantic World, 1689-1764

by Patrick Griffin

Book Overview

More than 100,000 Ulster Presbyterians of Scottish origin migrated to the American colonies in the six decades prior to the American Revolution, the largest movement of any group from the British Isles to British North America in the eighteenth century. Drawing on a vast store of archival materials, The People with No Name is the first book to tell this fascinating story in its full, transatlantic context. It explores how these people--whom...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691074623
• ISBN13: 9780691074627
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"