Event date:
Wednesday 28 February to Thursday 1 March
Time:
13:00
Location:
G16 in the William Robertson Wing of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology (Doorway 4 of the Old Medical School)
Devin Grier ( University of Edinburgh): Assessing the Resourcefulness of Scottish Immigrants during California's Gold Rush: San Francisco and Sacramento, 1850-1860.
Devin takes on the notion of the 'Canny Scot' in Gold Rush California. A diasporic people often observed as rational and sceptic, a significant Scottish population in mid nineteenth-century California suggests otherwise. Using data extracted from federal and state census counts, Devin breaks down and analyses the Scottish presence that resided in California during its Gold Rush.
[Diaspora Studies Graduate Programme]