Click on a thumbnail to go to Google Books.
Loading... In Search of Ulster-Scots Land: The Birth and Geotheological Imagings of a Transatlantic People, 1603-1703by Barry Aron Vann
None Loading...
Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I received a complimentary copy of this book to review for Tennessee Libraries. The full review will appear in a few months at their web site. The book looks into the theology of the Ulster-Scots and how this affected their migrations. The strongest portion of the book describes the theological beliefs of the people. This book needs to be used in conjunction with other books on the Scots-Irish such as James G. Leyburn's The Scotch-Irish: A Social History or James H. Webb's Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America. no reviews | add a review
This is a cultural geographic view on Scots-Irish immigration from Ulster to the Bible Belt. Drawing insights from geography, history, social psychology, sociology, and theology, Vann investigates the ways in which Scottish Calvinism affected the sense of identity and the migrations of native Scots first to Ulster and then to the American South. Vann presents a geographical perspective on the migrations of Scots to Ulster, showing that most population flows involving southwest Scotland during the first half of seventeenth century were directed across the Irish Sea via centuries-old sea routes that had allowed for the formation of evolving cultural areas. As political or religious motivational factors presented themselves in the last half of that century, Vann holds, the established social and familial links stretched along those sea routes facilitated chain migration that led to the birth of a Protestant Ulster-Scots community - a community constituted along religious and institutional rubrics of dissent from the monarch's churches. Within a century of the birth of this ""Ulster-Scots Land,"" five immigration waves to America served as conduits for diffusing significant elements of that culture to the upper American South where the Scots-Irish presence helped to form the cultural area referred to as the Bible Belt. Vann maps this significant portion of the South's ethnic mosaic to show the genesis of the educational, political, and religious institutions that stem from Ulster Scots' presence. With such deeply ingrained values, the southern Scots Irish have influenced the region's staunchly conservative belief systems and political ideology. No library descriptions found. |
Current DiscussionsNone
Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)975.004History and Geography North America Southeastern U.S.LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |
Most of this book reads like a doctoral dissertation. The structure of the book and the technical language are best suited to graduate students and specialists. It was difficult reading, but the final chapter, “Irish Protestants and the creation of the Bible Belt,” was worth the effort it took to get through the rest of the book. Although I'm tempted to suggest that interested readers concentrate on just this chapter, I won't. The continuity of culture between 17th century Ulster/southwest Scotland and modern Appalachia is a main point of the book. Recommended for specialists in Appalachian studies or Presbyterian church history. ( )