Emigration from the Scottish Highlands to America in the eighteenth century

British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 161-174

  Murdoch, Alex ^a  

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EID: 61449530236     PISSN: 0141867X     EISSN: 17540208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1754-0208.1998.tb00223.x     Document Type: Article

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