Contents - vii -- Acknowledgements - ix -- Preface - xi -- Introduction: Finding a Place for Sending Communities - 1 -- The Myth of Clearance - 17 -- Population Theories and the Greater Landowners - 22 -- Agricultural Improvement and the Shifting Social Hierarchy - 27 -- The Social Cost of Demographic Change - 39 -- Industrial Development and Paternalism Redefined - 43 -- Poverty and the Promise of Emigration - 55 -- Population Pressures and the Old Scottish Poor Law - 57 -- Class Tensions and Migratory Paths - 63 -- Pragmatism, Paternalism and Patronage - 69 -- The Established Church v. Emigration - 77 -- The Fifth Horseman - 80 -- Patterns of Decline and Deprivation in the 1790s - 88 -- The Kirk and Rural Change - 95 -- The Spirits of Improvement and Emigration - 96 -- The Sins of the City and the Perils of Overpopulation - 114 -- Commercial Ventures - 129 -- Commodious Conveyances - 131 -- Promises of Patronage and Paradise - 150 -- Rumours and Reportage - 159 -- The Provincial Press in Southern Scotland - 162 -- North America and Commercial Compromise - 168 -- Antipodean Adventure and Tragedy - 178 -- Popular and Editorial Opinion - 185 -- The Family Economy - 197 -- The Story of Border Emigration - 200 -- Economic Perceptions of Perspective Emigrants - 203 -- Perceptions of those left behind - 216 -- Chains of Emigration - 225 -- Emigration Networks - 226 -- The Severance and Survival of Emotional Ties - 233 -- Solace and Sentimentalism - 239 -- Perceptions of Emigration - 251 -- Bibliography - 257 -- Manuscripts - 257 -- Newspapers - 258 -- Printed Primary Material - 258 -- Secondary Works - 260 -- Index - 269.