Weather, Migration and the Scottish Diaspora: Leaving the Cold Country - Hardcover

by Graeme Morton (Author)

The climate reasons, pressures and incentives that led to emigration have been neither straightforward nor uniform The author reviews the significant ways in which environmental change impacted on human behaviour in the two centuries before climate change reached the present point of crisis.

Author Biography

Graeme Morton is Professor of Modern History at the University of Dundee where he is also Director of the Centre for Scottish Culture. His research is focussed on the study of migration, the Scottish diaspora, national identity and the weather.