Back to Caledonia Scottish Return Migration from the Sixteenth Century to the Present

by Varricchio, Mario

ISBN13:
9781906566449
ISBN10:
1906566445
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 2012-06-01
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
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Summary

Through five centuries of Scottish history, this volume sheds light on the experience of Scottish emigrants who decided to head back home. Adopting an interdisciplinary approachhistorical, anthropological, social, and literaryand drawing from diverse sources, this collection of essays opens up new avenues of research and features pioneering work.

Author Biography

Mario Varricchio is a lecturer in English at the University of Padua.

List of illustrations	p. vii
List of contributors	p. viii
Foreword	p. xv
Acknowledgements	p. xvii
Introduction: The other side of leaving	p. 1
The repatriation of capital to Scotland: A case study of seventeenth-century Dutch testaments and miscellaneous notarial instruments	p. 34
'If it please god, I come home': Scottish return migration from France in the long seventeenth century	p. 54
Scottish return migration from northwest Germany during the early modern period	p. 73
Return of the Scottish nabob, 1725-1833	p. 90
Returning nationalists, returning Scotland: James Grant and Theodore Napier	p. 109
Spiritual returns: Scottish ministers, theologians and philosophers, 1843-1945	p. 128
'Gentlemen, I am going to the Old Country': Scottish roots-tourists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries	p. 150
Ancestral clanscapes and transatlantic tartaneers	p. 168
A different memory of Scotland: Family and society in Valerie Miner's The Low Road	p. 189
Finding Neverland: Homecoming Scotland and the 'Affinity Scots'	p. 220
Who are you? National identity and contemporary return migrants in Scotland	p. 241
Coming home: Return migrants in twenty-first-century Scotland	p. 262
Index	p. 281
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