Stanley H. Palmer, History
This highly recommended monograph is . . . written in a clear, lively style.
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This highly recommended monograph is based on broad and deep archival research on both sides of the ocean and is written in a clear, lively style that quotes abundantly from contemporary sources.
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Stanley H. Palmer History )
A good analysis of one of the several disaffected and displaced groups that occupied the margins of the colonial world.
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Choice )
In part, Griffin's book is so successful because he understands that the historian of any diaspora has a dual responsibility: to the homeland and to the new land. Privileging either of these distorts the picture. . . . Griffin's fine book will stand as a fundamental building block of Ulster Scots and of Scots-Irish historical study.
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Donald Harman Akenson American Historical Review )
A welcome contribution to a field with a small but growing literature.
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H. Tyler Blethen William and Mary Quarterly )
An excellent study of interest not only to students of Britain, Ireland, and colonial America, but also to those seeking to understand the eighteenth-century British Empire as a whole.
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K. David Milobar International History Review )
There is much new in Griffin's study. . . . His accomplishment derives in part from an ability to discuss identity formation in a jargon-free story at once engaging and profound.
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Warren R. Hofstra Journal of American History )
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