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""Space of Time or Distance of Place""
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9783639106435
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A number of scholars argue that Protestant Scots' migrations to Ireland in the seventeenth century were precipitated by overpopulation and economic hardships, especially those that struck South- western Scotland. Cultural geographer Barry Aron Vann challenges that assessment. He unravels the complex assemblage of push and pull factors that played roles in seventeenth-century Scottish migrations. "Space of Time or Distance of Place" is an apt title for his book. Those words were part of a letter written by the Scottish born and educated Rev Robert Blair (1593-1666) to his Glasgow University mentor. Blair, as a key religious leader of a Scottish community living in seventeenth-century Ireland, demonstrated that he remained a member of an imagined community that Vann calls the Melvillian Scottish ecclesiastical intelligentsia. Vann uniquely demonstrates how religious thought worlds tied to space and nation, which he calls geotheology- a concept borrowed from the older geographer John K. Wright--served as lenses through which many migration decisions were made.
| Author: Barry Vann |
| Publisher: VDM Verlag |
| Publication Date: Nov 06, 2008 |
| Number of Pages: 268 pages |
| Binding: Paperback or Softback |
| ISBN-10: 3639106431 |
| ISBN-13: 9783639106435 |
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