Warren R. Hofstra is Stewart Bell Professor of History at
Shenandoah University. He is the author of The Planting of New
Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley and A
Separate Place: The Formation of Clarke County, Virginia. He is
coeditor of After the Backcountry: Rural Life in the Great Valley
of Virginia, 1800-1900; Virginia Reconsidered: New Histories of the
Old Dominion; and The Great Valley Road: Shenandoah Landscapes from
Prehistory to the Present.
"This book represents a major advance in our understanding by
clearing away long-standing and popular but erroneous ideas about
the Scotch-Irish. Moreover, it seeks to fit Scotch-Irish migration
into a broader context, the currently fashionable historiographical
construct of the Atlantic World. Seeing the networks and
connections that fit the Scotch-Irish into the larger web of empire
points the way for new questions about the migratory experience."
--Tyler Blethen, co-editor of Ulster and North America:
Transatlantic Perspectives on the Scotch-Irish
"This is an extremely impressive collection of essays that makes a
major contribution to an important field of American colonial
history, one that has been undergoing significant re-invention
andre-thinking over the last decade." --Thomas Bartlett, author of
Ireland: A History
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