Angela Mccarthy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3864652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Angela Mccarthy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Angela |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccarthy |
| SIGNATURE | MCCARTHY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Otago |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5514-5467 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Sugar, Slaves and High Society: The Grants of Kilgraston, 1750–1860, by R.P.J. Blake
Bought & Sold: Scotland, Jamaica and Slavery, by Kate Phillips & The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy: Scotland and Caribbean Slavery, 1775–1838, by Stephen Mullen
Global Scotland
The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy
Henry Dundas and Abolition of the British Slave Trade: Further Evidence
This article examines newly unearthed archival evidence that challenges the notion from activists, pressure groups, and some academics that Henry Dundas, Scotland’s most powerful politician in the late eighteenth century, is to blame for Britain’s failure to achieve abolition of the slave trade sooner than 1807. This evidence supports the argument that Dundas was genuinely attempting to chart a path by which Britain could abolish the slave trade,…
Blood Legacy: Reckoning with a Family’s Story of Slavery , by Alex Renton & Slaves and Highlanders: Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean , by David Alston
In recent years, interest in Scotland's involvement in transatlantic slavery has emerged as a key area of concern among academics, activists, and the public (see, for example, T.M. Devine [ed.],Recovering Scotland's Slavery Past [2015]).Such appeal has occasionally sparked considerable debate, as with the controversy over the Henry Dundas monument in Edinburgh (see my own contributions to the May and August 2022 issues of Scottish Affairs).Mostly…
Narratives of Migrant and Refugee Discrimination in New Zealand
Bad History: The Controversy over Henry Dundas and the Historiography of the Abolition of the Slave Trade
How far do individuals determine events and how much agency do they have? In March 2021, Edinburgh City Council approved plans to install a new plaque on the Melville monument in Edinburgh, Scotland, part of which refers to ‘the more than half-a-million Africans whose enslavement was a consequence of Henry Dundas’s actions’. These words on the plaque serve to hold Dundas (later Lord Melville) solely accountable for the consequences of a parliamen…
Historians, Activists and Britain's Slave Trade Abolition Debate: The Henry Dundas Plaque Debacle
Since the summer of 2020 debate concerning the commemoration of one of Scotland’s leading eighteenth century politicians has galvanised opinions. The heart of the controversy surrounds the wording on a new heritage marker erected in 2021 at the statue of Henry Dundas (later Viscount Melville) in St Andrew Square, Edinburgh. This article does not address the complex question of whether or not Dundas was an abolitionist, but only if he can be held …
Question wording and attitudinal ambivalence: Covid, the economy, and Americans' response to a real‐life trolley problem
Objective As the coronavirus pandemic raged throughout 2020 , political leaders faced a difficult choice: Should strict social distancing guidelines be maintained until the threat posed by COVID‐19 was diminished enough for citizens to return to their regular activities? Or was the economic disruption caused by the pandemic something that was, according to President Trump, "worse than the problem itself"? Methods We analyze data from a 2020 surve…
Two Sides of the Coin: Women, Men, and the Politics of Sexual Harassment
History tells us that elected leaders who are tainted by scandal often pay a political price for their behavior. In the past few years, such allegations of sexual harassment have engulfed a large number of political (as well as entertainment, business, and even academic) figures. Many were forced to resign their positions, while others chose to end their campaigns for election or reelection. While the great majority of harassment victims are wome…
Death in the Diaspora: British and Irish Gravestones
As the British expanded their empire from near colonies such as Ireland to those in remote corners of the world, such as Barbados, Ceylon and Australia, they left a trail of physical remains in every parish where settlement occurred. Between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, gravestones and elaborate epitaphs documented identity and attachment to both colony and metropole. This collection by leading migration historians and archaeologists …
Death in the Diaspora: British and Irish Gravestones
A pioneering comparative study of migrant death markers across the British and Irish worlds and what they can tell us about notions of ‘home’ Sets out an innovative agenda for comparative analysis of death markers in different parts of the formal and informal British Empire Provides analyses based on hundreds of thousands of gravestones and memorial markers in the UK and Ireland, Australasia, Asia, Africa and the Americas Investigates the effects…
Learning From the Past? Cambodian and Syrian Refugee Experiences in New Zealand, 1979-2019
This article utilises interviews with Cambodian and Syrian former refugees in Dunedin, New Zealand, to evaluate whether knowledge of previous refugee experiences can assist the resettlement of new refugee arrivals. It reveals that refugees to Dunedin have encountered similar challenges in both the past and the present – particularly concerning work, language, family reunification, health, and conflict within communities. Despite such similarities…
Understanding Evangelical Protestant Identity, Religiosity, Extreme Weather, and American Public Perceptions of Global Warming, 2006-2016
This paper presents a comprehensive effort to analyze the relationship between Evangelical Protestant identity and religiosity along with socioeconomic characteristics, political predisposition, and extreme weather events on the one hand, and opinions toward global warming on the other. Using survey data from the Pew Research Center from 2006–2013 and the 2016 American National Election Study merged with extreme weather data from the Center for D…
Religious Right, Religious Left, Both, or Neither? Understanding Religio-Political Identification
In this article we analyze the effects of religious, political, socioeconomic, and demographic variables on religious Americans' propensity to identify with religio-political movements. Using data from the 2013 Economic Values Survey collected by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), we sort nonsecular Americans into four categories: religious right, religious left,bothreligious rightandreligious left, orneitherreligious rightnorthe reli…
The complexity of trauma exposure and response: Profiling PTSD and CPTSD among a refugee sample
FMM class profiles distinguished between PTSD and CPTSD symptom formulations. Moreover, class membership was determined by specific trauma-exposure histories. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)
Personal narratives of Irish and Scottish migration, 1921–65: ‘For spirit and adventure’
Tea and Empire: James Taylor in Victorian Ceylon
This book examines the remarkable life story of James Taylor, renowned as ‘the father of the Ceylon tea enterprise’. Published in 2017, the 150th anniversary of Ceylon tea, the book documents Taylor’s role in that global commodity, and its forerunners, coffee and cinchona. It utilises Taylor’s own writings together with documentary and ethnographic evidence, to recreate plantation life in the high noon of the Victorian empire. It shows that the i…
Tea and Empire
Personal narratives of Irish and Scottish migration, 1921–65: For spirit and adventure'
Migrant Cross-Cultural Encounters in Asia and the Pacific
Global Migrations: The Scottish Diaspora Since 1600
Global Migrations: The Scottish Diaspora since 1600
A tribute to Professor Sir Tom Devine, FBA, the leading historian of modern Scotland and its diasporaThe impact of Scottish migration since 1600 at home and abroadFrom the seventeenth century to the current day, more than 2.5 million Scots have sought new lives elsewhere. This book of essays from established and emerging scholars examines the impact since 1600 of out migration from Scotland on the homeland, the migrants and the destinations in wh…
Clubbing Together: Ethnicity, Civility and Formal Sociability in the Scottish Diaspora to 1930, by Tanja Bueltmann
Following on from her study of Scottish associational culture in New Zealand ( Scottish Ethnicity and the Making of New Zealand, 1850–1930 [2011]), Tanja Bueltmann sets out in this book to examine Scottish associations elsewhere in the diaspora until 1930. The book contains five chapters covering England, North America, the Antipodes, Africa and the Far East, and a reflective chapter on diaspora. Bueltmann has two broad objectives: firstly, she s…
Religion and Attitudes toward Redistributive Policies among Americans
Scholars have devoted considerable attention to understanding how individuals’ political and economic attitudes shape their views toward government policies designed to alleviate growing income inequality in the United States. However, much less attention has been paid to the question of how religion shapes Americans’ attitudes toward income inequality and redistributive policies. Using data drawn from the 2013 Economic Values Survey conducted by…
Irish Migrants in New Zealand, 1840-1937: 'The Desired Haven'
An innovative and original contribution to the history of European migration between the mid-nineteenth century and the interwar years
Understanding Evangelical Protestant Identity, Religiosity, Extreme Weather, and American Public Perceptions of Global Warming, 2006-2016
This paper presents a comprehensive effort to analyze the relationship between Evangelical Protestant identity and religiosity along with socioeconomic characteristics, political predisposition, and extreme weather events on the one hand, and opinions toward global warming on the other. Using survey data from the Pew Research Center from 2006–2013 and the 2016 American National Election Study merged with extreme weather data from the Center for D…
Personal letters and the organisation of Irish migration to and from New Zealand, 1848–1925
Between 1840 and 1914 approximately a third of a million people left Ireland for Australasia. Of this total, New Zealand received a comparatively meagre amount. For instance, when the Irish peaked in sheer numbers in New Zealand in 1886, they supplied just 51,408 of the country’s total population of half a million. Despite such low numbers in comparison with those arriving in other destinations in the Irish diaspora, investigation of the Irish in…
Religious Right, Religious Left, Both, or Neither? Understanding Religio-Political Identification
In this article we analyze the effects of religious, political, socioeconomic, and demographic variables on religious Americans' propensity to identify with religio-political movements. Using data from the 2013 Economic Values Survey collected by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), we sort nonsecular Americans into four categories: religious right, religious left,bothreligious rightandreligious left, orneitherreligious rightnorthe reli…
The Scots' Society of St Andrew, Hull, 1910–2001: Immigrant, Ethnic and Transnational Association
As a broad research endeavour within studies of migration, examining the associational culture of migrants is a particularly important field of research. This article examines the activities of the Scots' Society of St Andrew in Hull and argues that the Society exhibited elements of an immigrant, ethnic and transnational organisation. While it was demonstrably Scottish in its early years, in later decades its regular monthly meetings, events, con…
Question wording and attitudinal ambivalence: Covid, the economy, and Americans' response to a real‐life trolley problem
Objective As the coronavirus pandemic raged throughout 2020 , political leaders faced a difficult choice: Should strict social distancing guidelines be maintained until the threat posed by COVID‐19 was diminished enough for citizens to return to their regular activities? Or was the economic disruption caused by the pandemic something that was, according to President Trump, "worse than the problem itself"? Methods We analyze data from a 2020 surve…
Two Sides of the Coin: Women, Men, and the Politics of Sexual Harassment
History tells us that elected leaders who are tainted by scandal often pay a political price for their behavior. In the past few years, such allegations of sexual harassment have engulfed a large number of political (as well as entertainment, business, and even academic) figures. Many were forced to resign their positions, while others chose to end their campaigns for election or reelection. While the great majority of harassment victims are wome…
Migrant Voyages to New Worlds in the Twentieth Century
Scottish national identities among inter-war migrants in North America and Australasia
Interpretations of Scottish identities have for too long been immersed in an inward-looking or domestic perspective. Where constructions of migrant identities exist they too have been influenced by developments about identity within Scotland, specifically a focus on Highlandism, by a disproportionate concentration on the Scots in Canada, and by exclusion of the twentieth-century migrant experience. This article examines the personal testimonies o…
Bands of Fellowship’: The Role of Personal Relationships and Social Networks Among Irish Migrants in New Zealand, 1861–1911
Utilising personal correspondence, this study explores the practical assistance and emotional benefit that newcomers derived from Irish expatriate kin and neighbourhood networks in New Zealand. These social networks frequently provided new arrivals with practical assistance relating to employment and accommodation, as well as enabling access to marital partners. Besides demonstrating the existence and operation of Irish migrant ties among corresp…
Personal narratives of Irish and Scottish migration, 1921–65: For spirit and adventure'
The only place worth thinking about’: Personal testimony and Irish and Scottish migrants in Australasia, 1921–61
Compared with scholarship relating to nineteenth-century migration, the historiography of Irish and Scottish migration in the twentieth century is comparatively thin, though the extant works provid
Personal Letters, Oral Testimony and Scottish Migration to New Zealand in the 1950s: The Case of Lorna Carter
By blending emigrant letters and oral testimony and illuminating the benefits and drawbacks associated with each source, as revealed in this case study of a Scottish female migrant, this article contributes to the methodology of the use of personal testimony within migration studies. It shows that though there can be some discrepancies between contemporary documentation and later memory, interviews with migrants are particularly useful when they …
Personal Accounts of Leaving Scotland, 1921–1954
Throughout the twentieth century approximately two million people left Scotland, a figure paralleling estimates of Scottish migration in the pre ceding century. As with the nineteenth century, Scottish migration in the twentieth century was part of a broader European movement. Between 1815 and 1930, for instance, approximately 60 million people are thought to have left Europe for overseas shores.1 Such was the average rate of mi gration from Scot…
Personal letters and the organisation of Irish migration to and from New Zealand, 1848–1925
Between 1840 and 1914 approximately a third of a million people left Ireland for Australasia. Of this total, New Zealand received a comparatively meagre amount. For instance, when the Irish peaked in sheer numbers in New Zealand in 1886, they supplied just 51,408 of the country’s total population of half a million. Despite such low numbers in comparison with those arriving in other destinations in the Irish diaspora, investigation of the Irish in…
Personal Accounts of Leaving Scotland, 1921–1954
Throughout the twentieth century approximately two million people left Scotland, a figure paralleling estimates of Scottish migration in the pre ceding century. As with the nineteenth century, Scottish migration in the twentieth century was part of a broader European movement. Between 1815 and 1930, for instance, approximately 60 million people are thought to have left Europe for overseas shores.1 Such was the average rate of mi gration from Scot…
Bands of Fellowship’: The Role of Personal Relationships and Social Networks Among Irish Migrants in New Zealand, 1861–1911
Utilising personal correspondence, this study explores the practical assistance and emotional benefit that newcomers derived from Irish expatriate kin and neighbourhood networks in New Zealand. These social networks frequently provided new arrivals with practical assistance relating to employment and accommodation, as well as enabling access to marital partners. Besides demonstrating the existence and operation of Irish migrant ties among corresp…
Personal Letters, Oral Testimony and Scottish Migration to New Zealand in the 1950s: The Case of Lorna Carter
By blending emigrant letters and oral testimony and illuminating the benefits and drawbacks associated with each source, as revealed in this case study of a Scottish female migrant, this article contributes to the methodology of the use of personal testimony within migration studies. It shows that though there can be some discrepancies between contemporary documentation and later memory, interviews with migrants are particularly useful when they …
Irish Migrants in New Zealand, 1840-1937: 'The Desired Haven'
An innovative and original contribution to the history of European migration between the mid-nineteenth century and the interwar years
Migrant Voyages to New Worlds in the Twentieth Century
Scottish national identities among inter-war migrants in North America and Australasia
Interpretations of Scottish identities have for too long been immersed in an inward-looking or domestic perspective. Where constructions of migrant identities exist they too have been influenced by developments about identity within Scotland, specifically a focus on Highlandism, by a disproportionate concentration on the Scots in Canada, and by exclusion of the twentieth-century migrant experience. This article examines the personal testimonies o…
The Scots' Society of St Andrew, Hull, 1910–2001: Immigrant, Ethnic and Transnational Association
As a broad research endeavour within studies of migration, examining the associational culture of migrants is a particularly important field of research. This article examines the activities of the Scots' Society of St Andrew in Hull and argues that the Society exhibited elements of an immigrant, ethnic and transnational organisation. While it was demonstrably Scottish in its early years, in later decades its regular monthly meetings, events, con…
The only place worth thinking about’: Personal testimony and Irish and Scottish migrants in Australasia, 1921–61
Compared with scholarship relating to nineteenth-century migration, the historiography of Irish and Scottish migration in the twentieth century is comparatively thin, though the extant works provid
Ireland's New Worlds: Immigrants, Politics, and Society in the United States and Australia, 1815–1922
Frugal and Thrifty, Hard-Working and Sober’: Representations of Scottishness in New Zealand
This article addresses the representations of Scottishness at individual and collective levels, as expressed by outsiders and insiders. It does so by merging a focus on the organisational dimensions of ethnicity as well as the essences that individuals and groups believed to constitute Scottishness. The study also endeavours to assess whether Scottish ethnicities were distinctive by making brief comparisons with expressions of Irish ethnic identi…
'The Desired Haven'? Impressions of New Zealand in Letters to and from Ireland, 1840–1925
This chapter explores Irish impressions of New Zealand, as an introduction to several collections of Irish-New Zealand correspondence which convey the diverse nature of the migrant experience. New Zealand&s;s Irish population, half the world from home, maintained contact with family and friends through the exchange of letters. The surviving correspondence, however, has not received the in-depth analysis accorded to letters relating to the Irish i…
Ireland in the World: Comparative, Transnational, and Personal Perspectives
Cronelea is a townland in the parish of Mullinacuffe, south County Wicklow, Ireland. Emu Bay is on the north coast of Tasmania, Australia. Timaru is on the east coast of the South Island, New Zealand. These three places are connected by Eliza Davis, a foundling admitted to the Dublin Foundling Hospital as an infant. In January 1841, when she was 22, Eliza was apprenticed by the governor of the Foundling Hospital as a servant to James Twamley, a f…
Expelling and Repatriating the Colonial Insane
Migration and Madness at Sea: The Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-century Voyage to New Zealand
This article draws on a range of sources—including surgeon superintendents' reports as well as asylum records—to examine the mental health of migrants and crew on the voyage to New Zealand during the Victorian and Edwardian eras. It examines key themes such as relations between crew and passengers, the emotional dimensions of insanity, attempts to export the insane, and collaboration between doctors and relatives in adhering to mental health legi…
The Scots in Victorian and Edwardian Belfast: A Study in Elite Migration
This book focuses on what Kyle Hughes terms the successful, entrepreneurial, middle-class, prosperous Protestant Scots who migrated to Belfast in the Victorian and Edwardian period. The focus arise
Migrant Cross-Cultural Encounters in Asia and the Pacific
Global Migrations: The Scottish Diaspora Since 1600
Global Migrations: The Scottish Diaspora since 1600
A tribute to Professor Sir Tom Devine, FBA, the leading historian of modern Scotland and its diasporaThe impact of Scottish migration since 1600 at home and abroadFrom the seventeenth century to the current day, more than 2.5 million Scots have sought new lives elsewhere. This book of essays from established and emerging scholars examines the impact since 1600 of out migration from Scotland on the homeland, the migrants and the destinations in wh…
Clubbing Together: Ethnicity, Civility and Formal Sociability in the Scottish Diaspora to 1930, by Tanja Bueltmann
Following on from her study of Scottish associational culture in New Zealand ( Scottish Ethnicity and the Making of New Zealand, 1850–1930 [2011]), Tanja Bueltmann sets out in this book to examine Scottish associations elsewhere in the diaspora until 1930. The book contains five chapters covering England, North America, the Antipodes, Africa and the Far East, and a reflective chapter on diaspora. Bueltmann has two broad objectives: firstly, she s…
Religion and Attitudes toward Redistributive Policies among Americans
Scholars have devoted considerable attention to understanding how individuals’ political and economic attitudes shape their views toward government policies designed to alleviate growing income inequality in the United States. However, much less attention has been paid to the question of how religion shapes Americans’ attitudes toward income inequality and redistributive policies. Using data drawn from the 2013 Economic Values Survey conducted by…
Personal narratives of Irish and Scottish migration, 1921–65: ‘For spirit and adventure’
Tea and Empire: James Taylor in Victorian Ceylon
This book examines the remarkable life story of James Taylor, renowned as ‘the father of the Ceylon tea enterprise’. Published in 2017, the 150th anniversary of Ceylon tea, the book documents Taylor’s role in that global commodity, and its forerunners, coffee and cinchona. It utilises Taylor’s own writings together with documentary and ethnographic evidence, to recreate plantation life in the high noon of the Victorian empire. It shows that the i…
Tea and Empire
Personal narratives of Irish and Scottish migration, 1921–65: For spirit and adventure'
History (26 works) · Political science (26 works) · Sociology (24 works) · Law (23 works) · Irish and British Studies (17 works) · Law (17 works) · History (16 works) · Gender Studies (15 works) · Politics (15 works) · Scottish History and National Identity (15 works)