"Space of Time or Distance of Place": Presbyterian Diffusion in South-western Scotland and Ulster, 1603-1690 - Couverture souple

Vann, Barry

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3639106431 ISBN 13 : 9783639106435

Editeur : VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2008

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Barry Aron Vann holds two doctorates, including a PhD dually awarded by the Faculties of Geography and Earth Science and Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. He is a professor of geography and education at the University of the Cumberlands located in Williamsburg, Kentucky, USA.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3639106431
• ISBN 13: 9783639106435
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 268
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible