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The Scottish Diaspora since 1750

HI551W

CREDIT POINTS 15

Course Co-ordinator: Dr Marjorie Harper

Pre-requisite(s): None

Co-requisite(s): HI5053 Introduction to Historical Research

Note(s): Available in first half-session 2008-2009

Between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries migrants from Ireland and Scotland settled in a range of different environments in Europe, North America, Australasia, India, South Africa and South America. This course will examine the history of Irish and Scottish overseas settlement in a broad comparative context, providing the opportunity to explore the multiplicity and complexity of the emigrant experience. Theories of ethnicity, diaspora and nationalism will assist in determining whether, and under what conditions, those of Irish and Scottish origin came to see themselves as part of an ethnic “diaspora”. This will lead into a consideration of whether Irish and Scottish overseas communities shared similar experiences of modernity, empire and migration, or whether their experiences were fundamentally different.

10 x 1.5-hour seminars

100% Continuous assessment: 1 x 3000 word essay (70%); 2 x 500 word book reviews (10% each); seminar participation (10%).

 

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