Weather, Migration and the Scottish Diaspora: Leaving the Cold Country Morton Graeme
Weather, Migration and the Scottish Diaspora: Leaving the Cold Country Morton Graeme Why did large numbers of Scots leave a temperate climate to live permanently in parts of the world where greater…
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Weather, Migration and the Scottish Diaspora: Leaving the Cold Country Morton Graeme
Why did large numbers of Scots leave a temperate climate to live permanently in parts of the world where greater temperature extreme was the norm? Nineteenth-century meteorologists turned to environmental determinism to explain the persistence of agricultural shortage and to identify the atmospheric conditions that exacerbated the incidence of death and disease in the towns. The long nineteenth century was a period consistently cooler than now, and Scotland remains the coldest of the British nations.
Emigration agents portrayed their favoured climate in order to pull migrants in their direction. In these cases, the logic of emigration and the benefits of an alternative climate were compelling. The climate reasons, pressures and incentives that resulted in the movement of people have been neither straightforward nor uniform.
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