Hard Neighbors Quotes

“Dispossessing the Indigenous inhabitants, they would, eventually, claim for themselves the role of original people in the land they occupied.”
― Colin Calloway, Hard Neighbors: The Scotch-Irish Invasion of Native America and the Making of an American Identity

“Their Scotch-Irish descendants who migrated to America in the eighteenth century, in historian David Hackett Fischer’s words, “thus included a double-distilled selection of some of the most disorderly inhabitants of a deeply disordered land.”
― Colin Calloway, Hard Neighbors: The Scotch-Irish Invasion of Native America and the Making of an American Identity

“Subsequent generations of historians have exposed Turner’s inattention to issues of race, class, gender, and genocide.”
― Colin Calloway, Hard Neighbors: The Scotch-Irish Invasion of Native America and the Making of an American Identity

“the only fixed Irish identity and the only useful Irish tradition is the Irish tradition of not having a fixed identity.”47”
― Colin Calloway, Hard Neighbors: The Scotch-Irish Invasion of Native America and the Making of an American Identity