Weather, Migration and the Scottish Diaspora
Leaving the Cold Country
Why did large numbers of Scots leave a temperate climate to live permanently in parts of the world where greater temperature extreme was the norm? The long nineteenth century was a period consistently cooler than now, and Scotland remains the coldest of the British nations. Nineteenth-century meteorologists turned to environmental determinism to explain the persistence of agricultural shortage and to identify the atmospheric conditions that exacerbated the incidence of death and disease in the towns. In these cases, the logic of emigration and the benefits of an alternative climate were compelling. Emigration agents portrayed their favoured c…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-00-020375-2
- EAN: 9781000203752
- Produktnummer: 34038215
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 294 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 7'558 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Abbildungen: 25 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 5 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 20 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 69 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
Graeme Morton is Professor of Modern History at the University of Dundee where he is also Director of the Centre for Scottish Culture. His research is focussed on the study of migration, the Scottish diaspora, national identity and the weather.
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