Edinburgh University Press
Death in the Diaspora
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About this book
As British and Irish migrants sought new lives in the Caribbean, Asia, North America and Australasia, they left a trail of physical remains where settlement occurred. Between the 17th and 20th centuries, gravestones and elaborate epitaphs documented identity and attachment to their old and new worlds. This book expands upon earlier examination of cultural imperialism to reveal how individuals, kinship groups and occupational connections identified with place and space over time.
With analyses based on gravestones and memorial markers in the UK and Ireland, Australasia, Asia, Africa and the Americas, the contributors explore how this evidence can inform 21st-century ideas about the attachments that British and Irish migrants had to ‘home’ – in both life and death.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Figures and Tables
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The Contributors
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Acknowledgements
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Series Editors’ Introduction
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1 Introduction – Death in the Diaspora: British and Irish Gravestones
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2 Forgetting and Remembering: Scots and Ulster Scots Memorials in Eighteenth-century Ulster, Pennsylvania and Nineteenth-century New South Wales
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3 Imposing Identity: Death Markers to ‘English’ People in Barbados, 1627–1838
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4 Looking for Thistles in Stone Gardens: The Cemeteries of Nova Scotia’s Scottish Immigrants
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5 Scottish Gravestones in Ceylon in Comparative Perspective
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6 Irish Memorialisation in South Australia, 1850–99
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7 Memorialising the Diasporic Cornish
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8 Documents in Stone: Records of Lives and Deaths of Scots Abroad and in Scotland
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9 Conclusion
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Index
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