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Captivity Narratives And The Powers Of Horror Eunice Williams And Mary Jemison, Captives Unredeemed, Evelyne Keitel
Captivity Narratives And The Powers Of Horror Eunice Williams And Mary Jemison, Captives Unredeemed, Evelyne Keitel
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
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1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
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The Power Of Ethnicity: The Preservation Of Scots -Irish Culture In The Eighteenth-Century American Backcountry., Kevin Lee Yeager
The Power Of Ethnicity: The Preservation Of Scots -Irish Culture In The Eighteenth-Century American Backcountry., Kevin Lee Yeager
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The character of the Scots-Irish has been shrouded in myth almost from the moment the first Ulster immigrants disembarked at Philadelphia in the 1710s. Contemporaries condemned the Scots-Irish as lazy, illiterate, uncouth, and violent. Later hagiographers, however, praised them as ruggedly individualistic, liberty-loving people who brought civilization to the American wilderness. Recent historians have done little to advance this debate. While re-stating these simplistic stereotypes, modern scholars have failed to ground their arguments in extensive analyses of primary sources. While numerous monographs studying other ethnic and cultural groups in colonial America have appeared over the last thirty years, none as …