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Publication
New York: Broadway Books (Random House imprint), 2004.
Physical description
369 p.; 21 cm
Notes
OPENING WORDS:
"Of the different racial strains that mingled their blood with the earlier English—Irish, Huguenot-French, German, Scotch-Irish—the last was by far the most important. . . They were desperately poor; the available lands near the coast were already preempted; so armed with axes, their seed potatoes, and the newly invented rifle, they plunged into the backwoods to become our great pioneering race. Scattered thinly through a long frontier, they constituted the outposts and buffer settlements of civilization. A vigorous breed, hardy, assertive, individualistic, thrifty, trained in the democracy of the Scottish kirk, they were the material out of which later Jacksonian democracy was to be fashioned, the creators of that western type which in politics and industry became ultimately the American type."
—Vernon Louis Parrington, Main Currents in American Thought
CONTENTS:
PART ONE : RULERS AND REDNECKS.
1. Big Moccasin Gap.
2. The Radical Individualists.
PART TWO : THE MAKING OF A PEOPLE AND A NATION.
1. Hadrian's Wall.
2. Tribalism Versus Feudalism : The Celtic Tie of Kinship.
3. Braveheart.
4. Bannockburn.
PART THREE : THE ULSTER SCOTS.
1. The Ulster Plantation.
2. Border Warriors—and Bible Beaters.
3. The Problem Children of Ulster.
4. Londonderry. The Boyne. Exodus.
PART FOUR : THE SPIRIT OF A REVOLUTION.
PART FIVE : THE HEART OF THE SOUTH.
1. Westward, Ho.
2. Old Hickory.
3. The Winds of War.
4. Attack and Die.
PART SIX : RECONSTRUCTION. DIASPORA. REDUCATION?
1. The Mess the Yankees Made.
2. Fight, Sing, Drink, Pray.
3. Poor but Proud—and Stubborn as Hell.
4. Hillbilly Highways.
PART SEVEN : REFLECTIONS : THE UNBREAKABLE CIRCLE.
1. Glad Soldiers, Accidental Scholars.
2. The Invisible People.
3. Rites of Passage : The Legacy of Camel Six.
4. Kensett, Arkansas.
"Of the different racial strains that mingled their blood with the earlier English—Irish, Huguenot-French, German, Scotch-Irish—the last was by far the most important. . . They were desperately poor; the available lands near the coast were already preempted; so armed with axes, their seed potatoes, and the newly invented rifle, they plunged into the backwoods to become our great pioneering race. Scattered thinly through a long frontier, they constituted the outposts and buffer settlements of civilization. A vigorous breed, hardy, assertive, individualistic, thrifty, trained in the democracy of the Scottish kirk, they were the material out of which later Jacksonian democracy was to be fashioned, the creators of that western type which in politics and industry became ultimately the American type."
—Vernon Louis Parrington, Main Currents in American Thought
CONTENTS:
PART ONE : RULERS AND REDNECKS.
1. Big Moccasin Gap.
2. The Radical Individualists.
PART TWO : THE MAKING OF A PEOPLE AND A NATION.
1. Hadrian's Wall.
2. Tribalism Versus Feudalism : The Celtic Tie of Kinship.
3. Braveheart.
4. Bannockburn.
PART THREE : THE ULSTER SCOTS.
1. The Ulster Plantation.
2. Border Warriors—and Bible Beaters.
3. The Problem Children of Ulster.
4. Londonderry. The Boyne. Exodus.
PART FOUR : THE SPIRIT OF A REVOLUTION.
PART FIVE : THE HEART OF THE SOUTH.
1. Westward, Ho.
2. Old Hickory.
3. The Winds of War.
4. Attack and Die.
PART SIX : RECONSTRUCTION. DIASPORA. REDUCATION?
1. The Mess the Yankees Made.
2. Fight, Sing, Drink, Pray.
3. Poor but Proud—and Stubborn as Hell.
4. Hillbilly Highways.
PART SEVEN : REFLECTIONS : THE UNBREAKABLE CIRCLE.
1. Glad Soldiers, Accidental Scholars.
2. The Invisible People.
3. Rites of Passage : The Legacy of Camel Six.
4. Kensett, Arkansas.