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Death in the Diaspora

Death in the Diaspora


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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.The book explores aspects of sociolinguistic difference evident in death markers and offers some insights into how growing literacy amongst migrant communities shaped the form of grave epitaphs. It expands upon earlier
analyses of cultural imperialism to see how individual families and kinship groups identified with place and space over time and discusses how post-medieval archaeology from a range of death landscapes highlight difference rather than uniformity - including influences by Dutch, Jewish, Muslim and non-religious norms upon memorialisation practices. It also reveals how women and children, often marginalised voices in imperial scholarship, were as likely to be provided with more elaborate death markers than their male counterparts and challenges ideas of chain migration by demonstrating that families often moved to different, rather than similar, destinations overseas.

About the Author:

Nicholas J. Evans is Lecturer in Diaspora History at the University of Hull.

Angela McCarthy is Professor of Scottish and Irish History at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She is the editor of A Global Clan (2006) and author of Personal Narratives of Irish and Scottish Migration, 1921-65 (2007) and Scottishness and Irishness in New Zealand since 1840 (2011).


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781474473781
  • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 12 mm
  • Weight: 546 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1474473784
  • Publisher Date: 20 Nov 2020
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 232
  • Series Title: Studies in British and Irish Migration
  • Sub Title: British and Irish Gravestones
  • Width: 156 mm


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