Americans in Glasgow, 1850–1900

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McCabe, Tahitia; Bowman, Stephen and Taylor, Keiran, eds. (2026) Americans in Glasgow, 1850–1900. In: Portable City. The City as Place: Emotions, Experiences, and Meanings . Peter Lang, Oxford. ISBN 9781803742830

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Abstract

While Glasgow’s visitors may have found the weather challenging, the city still attracted many thousands of American tourists and immigrants from 1850 through the early years of the 1900s. This chapter provides demographic information on those found in the five decennial census returns of that period and adds a deeper look at the lives and relationships of certain individuals. These are preliminary research results and more remains to be discovered about these people, their time in Glasgow and their social networks. Several questions are considered including: what type of migrants were these Americans? What kind of occupations did they have? Did they have long standing family ties to Scotland and thus were coming to a place which was not totally foreign? Some were the children of return migrants and were moving along with their families. What was their experience of being American in Scotland and did local and familial connections provide support for their transition to a new place?

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McCabe, Tahitia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5691-4539; Bowman, Stephen and Taylor, Keiran
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