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The heather and the fern : Scottish migration & New Zealand settlement / edited by Tom Brooking and Jennie Coleman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Dunedin, N.Z. : Otago University Press, 2003Description: 206 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1877276332
  • 9781877276330
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.8930411 21
Contents:
A Scottish Empire? / John M. MacKenzie -- The last of the clan and other highland emigrants / Eric Richards -- Sharing out the haggis / Tom Brooking -- Scots miners in the goldfields, 1861-1870 / Terry Hearn -- Scots in the colonial economy / Jim McAloon -- Reluctant leavers / Rosalind McClean -- For spirit and adventure / Angela McCarthy -- Ce'ol M'or of the south / Jennie Coleman -- Heather and Fern / Alan Riach.
Review: "One of the largest European migrant groups to New Zealand, the Scots have contributed much to its evolving society. This book brings together essays on many aspects of Scottish settlement in New Zealand, including individual stories. It covers both nineteenth and twentieth-century migration, and includes chapters on the Scottish diaspora, bagpipes and Burns."--BOOK JACKET.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 304.8930411 HEA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A214840B
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 304.8930411 HEA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A278276B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-191) and index.

A Scottish Empire? / John M. MacKenzie -- The last of the clan and other highland emigrants / Eric Richards -- Sharing out the haggis / Tom Brooking -- Scots miners in the goldfields, 1861-1870 / Terry Hearn -- Scots in the colonial economy / Jim McAloon -- Reluctant leavers / Rosalind McClean -- For spirit and adventure / Angela McCarthy -- Ce'ol M'or of the south / Jennie Coleman -- Heather and Fern / Alan Riach.

"One of the largest European migrant groups to New Zealand, the Scots have contributed much to its evolving society. This book brings together essays on many aspects of Scottish settlement in New Zealand, including individual stories. It covers both nineteenth and twentieth-century migration, and includes chapters on the Scottish diaspora, bagpipes and Burns."--BOOK JACKET.

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